Lack of access to midstream infrastructure poses challenge to Mexico's deepwater development

摘要

The 2013-14 energy reform legislation placed great emphasis upon the upstream sector but failed to establish a regulatory regime that would allow access to Pemex's legacy infrastructure. The missing regime would have been based on the principle of open access with transparent tolling arrangements that would require the point of sale of natural gas to be at the tailgate of the processing plant. The details of how the midstream is supposed to work for CNH operators were left unclear by the previous administration. In the list of areas of responsibility for CRE, gas processing does not appear.