Mexico Pacific Ltd. LLC has appointed Sarah Bairstow, the company’s president, as chief executive officer, effective immediately.
Her appointment follows Ivan Van der Walt’s resignation as chief executive officer to pursue other interests.
Bairstow has more than 20 years of international LNG and energy leadership experience and is a founding executive of Mexico Pacific. Prior to joining Mexico Pacific in 2019, Bairstow was the head of strategic projects and commercial LNG for the Gladstone LNG project, where she secured the long-term SPAs underpinning project revenues before building and overseeing Gladstone LNG’s commercial LNG business for nearly a decade on behalf of project partners Santos Ltd., KOGAS, Petronas, and TotalEnergies.
Mexico Pacific continues to progress the workstreams necessary to achieve a final investment decision for the first phase of its 15-million tonnes/year Saguaro Energía LNG plant on the West Coast in Puerto Libertad, Sonora, and associated 500-mile Sierra Madre pipeline.
“With three trains commercially contracted and key regulatory permits in place across the pipeline and terminal, Mexico Pacific is well positioned to begin construction of its flagship project in the second half of this year,” said Charles Davidson, executive chairman of Mexico Pacific and partner at Quantum Capital Group, Mexico Pacific’s principal equity owner.