Natural Gas Intelligence: Mexico Leads Latin America Liquefaction Push as Regional LNG Capabilities Grow

Mexico is leading a push across Latin America to develop the LNG business, according to Sergio Chapa, a senior LNG analyst at Poten & Partners. “There’s something of a small-scale liquefaction boom going on in Latin America right now,” said Chapa recently during the U.S.-Mexico Natural Gas Forum in San Antonio, TX. “Latin America is a very mountainous, geographically challenging region — it’s not like the United States where you can build pipelines across half of the country — and if you want to get natural gas to customers, you’ve got to liquefy it, put it on trucks, put in ISO containers and get it to your end user.”