Data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) show US natural gas pipeline exports to Mexico averaged 7.5 bcf/d (212.7 x 106 m3/d) in May 2025, the most of any month on record as Mexico’s demand for natural gas, particularly in the electric power sector, increases. On an annual basis, US natural gas pipeline exports to Mexico averaged 6.4 bcf/d (181.2 x 106 m3/d) in 2024, a 25% increase compared with 2019 and the highest on record in data going back as early as 1975.
Total consumption of natural gas in Mexico increased from 7.7 bcf/d (218.03 x 106 m3/d) to 8.6 bcf/d (243.5 x 106 m3/d) during the same time period, with most growth concentrated in Mexico’s electric power sector.
Natural gas exports from the United States enter Mexico along four main corridors — South Texas, West Texas, Arizona, and California — with a combined capacity of about 14.8 bcf/d (419.08 x 106 m3/d) and an approximate utilization rate of 43% in 2024.
Mexico plans to continue to expand its domestic pipeline network to meet potential growth in demand. Natural gas imported from the South Texas corridor through the Sur de Texas–Tuxpan pipeline has access to liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, power plants, and other uses of demand, and the pipeline connects with the Gasoducto Puerta al Sureste (Southeast Gateway Gas pipeline), an offshore pipeline completed in 2025 and designed to supply natural gas to new power plants in the Yucatan Peninsula.
In 2022, sections of the Tula–Villa de Reyes and Tuxpan–Tula pipelines commenced partial operation, with full service anticipated in 2025. The Energia Mayakan pipeline is expected to expand natural gas infrastructure on the Yucatán Peninsula by 2025. Developers of the Centauro del Norte pipeline, which will provide additional pipeline capacity to northwestern Mexico’s combined-cycle power plants, began construction in 2025.
