The National Energy Commission (CNE) approved on October 13, 2026 the start of an administrative expiry procedure covering 132 hydrocarbon, gas and LP gas marketing permits, according to Agreement CT/19.SO/35-2026, as reported by Energía a Debate. The figure reaches more than a hundred permit-holding companies that sell fuels in the country.
The regulator's Technical Committee instructed the Hydrocarbons Unit to formalize the proceedings and asked the Technical Secretariat to monitor them and register them in the Public Registry, according to Industry & Energy Magazine. For a Mexican reader this matters because those permits underpin the sale of gasoline, natural gas and LP gas at stations, plants and households. When one is called into question, the company's commercial operation is paused until the process is resolved.
The breakdown of the agreement is as follows:
- 95 hydrocarbon marketing permits - 34 for gas - 3 for liquefied petroleum gas
Among the names on the list are biofuels companies such as Etanol Plus, BioRecen and BioSolmex, as well as Altos Hornos de México. In gas, developers such as Pantera Exploración y Producción 2.2 and Hokchi Energy appear. The document does not detail the reason for each case. The two outlets that covered it agree that the agreement does not yet resolve anything: Industry & Energy Magazine writes that the measure does not, for now, imply the definitive loss of the authorizations, and that the inclusion of these companies does not by itself constitute a declaration of definitive non-compliance.
The next step is for the Hydrocarbons Unit to open the individual procedure for each permit and for the Technical Secretariat to register it. The final status of each company will depend on those proceedings and on the deadlines set by the regulator.
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