Mexico - Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY-NOM-010-ASEA-2016: Compressed natural gas (CNG)

National Agency for Industrial Safety and Environmental Protection in the Hydrocarbon Sector) has publisheddraft Mexican Official Standard PROY-NOM-010-ASEA-2016: Compressed natural gas (CNG). Minimum safety requirements to be met by loading and unloading terminals for transportable storage modules, and motor vehicle fuelling stations) (57 pages, in Spanish)

Description of content: The notified draft Mexican Official Standard is binding on all compressed natural gas (CNG) terminals and fuelling stations in the Mexican Republic. It applies to the systems, components, equipment and materials used in:

·  1.2.1. Loading terminals and service stations, from the natural gas inlet valve in the compression    system to the point where the CNG is transferred to the transportable storage system or vehicle    system.

·  1.2.2. Unloading terminals, from the CNG reception point to the user's natural gas inlet valve.

·  1.2.3. Satellite fuelling stations, from the CNG reception point to the point where the CNG is           transferred to vehicle systems.

·   1.2.4. The draft Standard does not cover:

(a)  Stations regulating and measuring either the reception of natural gas in loading terminals and fuelling stations or the delivery of natural gas in unloading terminals.

(b)  Vehicles for transporting CNG containers.

·   1.2.5. It does not apply to:

(a)  Vehicle reloading apparatus.

(b)  Integrated CNG compression and dispensing equipment.

Proposed date of adoption: -

Proposed date of entry into force: 60 calendar days after the publication of the final Mexican Official Standard in the Official Journal.

If the Proposal/Notification/Regulation will affect your International Business please send us your representation with facts and figures before 20 February 2016, so that these can be taken up suitably.