Designer seeks permit to send out United States gas to Mexico for LNG exports

A Mexican energy designer is seeking U.S. consent to export gas to Mexico, turn it into melted natural gas (LNG) and send it to countries with U.S. freetrade contracts, its filing with the U.S. Department of Energy showed.

Mexico-based Gato Negro Permitium Uno and partners including Houston-based Big River Energy plan to construct 4 LNG processing plants in Manzanillo on Mexico's Pacific coast to produce approximately 4 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) of LNG, the business stated.

Gato Negro began the Mexican allowing process in June 2022, it stated in the May 10 filing. Big River was granted authority by the DOE in late 2022 to export gas to Mexico for 2 years through pipeline.

The job is the latest in a series of developments to transform U.S. gas into LNG and export it from Mexico's Atlantic and Pacific coasts to fulfill strong global demand for the superchilled gas.

9 other onshore and floating LNG production facilities are planned in Mexico, primarily to process U.S. gas, guaranteeing to make the country one of the largest exporters of LNG in Latin America and the Caribbean. The very first, an offshore project by New Fortress Energy, is already producing LNG.

Gato Negro is requesting authorization to provide 647 million cubic feet daily (mmcf/d) of feed gas through TC Energy's. Guadalajara-Manzanillo pipeline for 20 years. Operations would. start in September 2027, with LNG exports reaching 556 million. cf/d.

Gato Negro has actually not yet participated in contracts to receive. the U.S. gas nor sell the resulting LNG to final customers, the. company's application showed.

The business prepares to sign several supply arrangements with. gas manufacturers and marketers in the Permian Basin and. potentially other producing locations in Texas.

Preserving this versatility to acquire gas. supplies from several producers on different terms will permit. the candidate to access a diversity of natural gas materials on. beneficial economic terms, Gato Negro said in its application.