A Sempra subsidiary and a Mexican utility have ended an agreement to develop an export project in western Mexico that sought to ship U.S. produced gas overseas.
Sempra Infrastructure’s termination of a development agreement in December 2025 with Comisión Federal de Electricidad — Mexico’s state-owned electric utility — effectively ends the planned Vista Pacífico LNG project, which was intended to ship U.S. natural gas into Mexico to then be reexported overseas. The company revealed the cancellation in a financial filing last week, saying it was because of a “change in SI Partners’ and the CFE’s respective priorities.”
The dissolution of the development agreement between Sempra Infrastructure and CFE comes as Sempra is advancing the Energía Costa Azul (ECA) LNG project in Baja California. LNG projects proposed for Mexico help make up North America’s growing export capacity.
The Vista Pacífico LNG project aimed to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Mexican state of Sinaloa. In December 2022, the Department of Energy approved a request to export LNG from the project to countries that lack a free-trade agreement with the United States. The terminal was authorized to export up to 200 billion cubic feet of gas per year.
