HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Apr.2026, Works: 1,750) — Mexico finally put faces and names to one of the biggest questions hanging over its energy future: whether to frack or not to frack.
President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, flanked by Energy Secretary (SENER) head Luz Elena González Escobar and PEMEX CEO Víctor Rodríguez Padilla, laid out what her administration is calling a “strategy to strengthen energy sovereignty.” The plan is simple on the surface and incredibly complex underneath: consume less energy, grow renewables, and tap more domestic natural gas, first from conventional deposits and—maybe—from unconventional deposits that would require hydraulic fracturing.
