Costa Azul: Right place, right time, wrong scale

Friday, 03 April 2026 07:41

Sempra’s Energía Costa Azul is set to become Mexico’s first large-scale LNG export facility when it begins commercial operations in 2026. The 3.25MTPA plant represents a new strategic route for Permian Basin gas to reach Asian markets, bypassing the Panama Canal. With Qatari supply disrupted by conflict in the Persian Gulf, Costa Azul is set to open into a transformed market where Pacific-facing capacity has acquired an urgency that did not exist when the project was conceived, our Markets Editor Dr Alexander Wilk writes.


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