U.S. natural gas pipeline exports to Mexico averaged 7.5 billion cubic feet per day in May 2025 – the most of any month on record – as Mexico’s demand for natural gas increases. U.S. natural gas pipeline exports to Mexico averaged 6.4 Bcf/d in 2024 – an increase of 25 percent compared with 2019 and the highest on record in data going back to at least 1975, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Natural gas exports from the U.S. enter Mexico along four main corridors – west Texas, south Texas, Arizona and California – with a combined capacity of about 14.8 Bcf/d and an approximate utilization rate of 43 percent in 2024.
In 2024 pipeline exports from west and south Texas accounted for 91 percent of U.S. natural gas pipeline exports to Mexico. The south Texas corridor connects from the Agua Dulce Hub into northeastern Mexico. Natural gas from the Permian Basin in west Texas primarily serves northwestern, central and southwestern Mexico through various natural gas systems in Mexico. Exports from west Texas increased from 0.6 Bcf/d in 2019 to 1.8 Bcf/d in 2024.
Consumption of natural gas in Mexico increased from 7.7 Bcf/d to 8.6 Bcf/d in 2019-24; most growth was concentrated in Mexico’s electric power sector.
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