(S&P Global Platts, Daniel Rodriguez, 27.Sep.2018) — Mexico’s state oil company Pemex expects to make a final investment decision (FID) and begin development of its Ixachi, Pokche, Xikin, and Suuk...
(Talos Energy, 27.Sep.2018) — Talos Energy Inc. announced the Mexican oil & gas regulator, the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) has approved the appraisal plan for the Zama discovery. The approval...
(Bloomberg, 27.Sep.2018) — New rules forcing ships to use cleaner marine fuels may deal yet another blow to cash-strapped Petroleos de Venezuela SA, an exporter of high-sulfur fuel oil. From...
(Reuters, David Alire Garcia, Marianna Parraga, 26.Sep.2018) — Mexican state-run oil company Pemex expects to begin importing up to 100,000 barrels per day of light crude oil, likely from the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 25.Sep.2018) — Contrary to what is thought, investing in Pemex and increasing its production could weaken the oil company, since it hasn’t achieved the profitability...
(Pemex, 20.Sep.2018) — Pemex and the Block 7 consortium signed the first ever pre-unitization agreement in Mexico. Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and Talos Energy, as operator of the Block 7 Consortium,...
(Pemex, 19.Sep.2018) — The CEO of Petróleos Mexicanos, Carlos Treviño Medina, launched the Management Assessment System at the Cangrejera Petrochemical Complex, located in the state of Veracruz that will help...
(Pemex, 19.Sep.2018) — At 13:16 hours, on September 19th a massive, country-wide earthquake drill started and 140 Petróleos Mexicanos facilities participated simultaneously. This country-wide drill is held in Mexico each...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 19.Sep.2018) — Mexico Pacific Limited LLC (MPL) announced that TechnipFMC was awarded a PreFEED contract for its liquefaction project currently under development on the Pacific...
(Reuters, Collin Eaton, 19.Sep.2018) — A former Petroleos Mexicanos board member said on Wednesday Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has enough political support to change the nation’s energy law...
(Sempra Energy, 11.Sep.2018) — Sempra Energy announced its Mexican subsidiary, Infraestructura Energética Nova, S.A.B. de C.V. (IEnova) signed a long-term contract with British Petroleum (BP) for the remaining 50 percent...
(S&P Global Platts, Daniel Rodriguez, 11.Sep.2018) — Mexico's President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Sunday he plans to focus on developing and exploring onshore and shallow water areas under the...
(S&P Global, 6.Sep.2018) — Mexico gas market observers have expressed concern that a lack of liquidity and supply guarantees will complicate the final phase of Pemex's natural gas contract release...
(Bloomberg, Amy Stillman and Eric Martin, 6.Sep.2018) — Mexico’s next president said he will continue with tenders for drilling service contracts starting when he takes office. “We are preparing the...
(OilPrice.com, Irina Slav, 5.Sep.2018) — Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has plans to build the country’s largest refinery with a capacity to produce 400,000 barrels of gasoline daily, Reuters...
(LNG World Shipping, Mike Corkhill, 4.Sep.2018) — New Fortress Energy has added two major LNG import projects to its portfolio, as part of its drive to bring the benefits of...
[caption id="attachment_3625" align="alignnone" width="800"] Photo: OOS Energy[/caption] (Offshore, 4.Sep.2018) — OOS Energy has won its first drilling contract offshore Mexico. The OOS Tiger 1 drillship will support Marinsa & PPS...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 3.Sep.2018) — During the first seven months of 2018, the average consumption of gasoline in Mexico was 778,000 barrels per day, or 124 million liters...
(Pemex, 31.Aug.2018) — Rating agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P) confirmed the global rating of Petróleos Mexicanos at ‘BBB+’ with stable outlook after its annual review of the company, and modified...
(Reuters, Ana Isabel Martinez, Marianna Parraga, 30.Aug.2018) — Mexico’s state-run oil firm Pemex has not exported light crude since May, according to a source and export data seen by Reuters...
(Pemex, 28.Aug.2018) — Pemex CEO Carlos Treviño Medina, presented the donation of 15,685,324 pesos made by the oil workers’ community in the country as part of the 2018 Fundraiser to...
(Reuters, 28.Aug.2018) — Mexican president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador welcomed a deal between Mexico and the U.S. to overhaul the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that he said preserved...
(Bloomberg, Amy Stillman, 28.Aug.2018) — Mexico President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will name Fluvio Ruiz Alarcon as Petroleos Mexicanos’s next exploration and production chief, according to two people with knowledge...
(Renaissance Oil Corp., 27.Aug.2018) — Renaissance Oil Corp. reported second quarter 2018 results. All dollar figures are Canadian dollars, unless otherwise noted. SECOND QUARTER 2018 HIGHLIGHTS -- Revenue in Q2...
(Renaissance, 27.Aug.2018) — Renaissance Oil Corp. announced that in the second quarter of 2018 it saw continued oil field development with its partner LUKOIL, at the Amatitlán block in Veracruz,...
(Atlas Renewable Energy, 27.Aug.2018) — Atlas Renewable Energy and Banco de Comercio Exterior (Bancomext) announced the signing of a long-term financing agreement for Atlas Renewable Energy's solar power plant in...
(Oilprice.com, Nick Cunningham, 26.Aug.2018) — Mexico will likely halt oil auctions for at least two years, dealing a blow to its oil industry. Mexico’s president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO)...
(Pemex, 26.Aug.2018) — As of today, the Commission of Economic Competition (acronym in Spanish, Cofece) published the fine imposed on Pemex TRI for over 418 million pesos, for allegedly having...
(Pemex, 25.Aug.2018) — During a meeting of the Guanajuato Coordination Group, Governor Miguel Márquez Márquez and the CEO of Petróleos Mexicanos, Carlos Treviño Medina, assessed the measures implemented to date...
(Houston Chronicle, Katherine Blunt, 24.Aug.2018) — For years, U.S. producers have counted on Mexico to buy enormous quantities of natural gas from the prolific shale fields in West Texas and...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 22.Aug.2018) – From 2015 to July 2018, the number of recharging stations for electric vehicles, or electric stations, has grown by almost a multiple of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 22.Aug.2018) – Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced plans to boost Mexico’s crude oil production to 2.5 million barrels per day (MMb/d) by 2021...
(Natural Gas Intelligence, Peter de Montmollin, 22.Aug.2018) — A U.S. company has secured a long-term contract to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import project on the southern tip of...
(Reuters, 21.Aug.2018) — Mexico’s competition authority said on Tuesday that it has fined a unit of state-owned oil company Pemex for presenting an annual compliance report on antimonopoly measures in...
(MexicoNow, 20.Aug.2018) – U.S. energy infrastructure developer New Fortress Energy (NFE) announced that it was awarded a long-term contract for the development, construction and operation of a terminal dedicated to...
(Pemex, 20.Aug.2018) – Pemex commenced its Digital Week, so personnel could be trained with the new technological tools developed by the Corporate Department of Informational Technology (DCTI) to improve work...
(Reuters, David Alire Garcia, 16.Aug.2018) – U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry praised the goal set out by Mexico’s incoming president to end massive gasoline and diesel imports, nearly all of...
(Platts, 16.Aug.2018) — State-owned Pemex's ethylene and polyethylene production facilities ran normally even as a pipeline incident led fellow Mexican polymer producer Braskem Idesa to institute a temporary shutdown of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 15.Aug.2018) – If all goes off as planned, by 2025, Guyana will be the 5th largest oil producer in the Latin American and Caribbean region....
(Bloomberg, Amy Stillman, 14.Aug.2018) – By most financial measures, Mexico’s state oil company is seriously unwell. The country’s new leader is promising to revive it. But the treatment could end...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 14.Aug.2018) – The ability to use hydraulic fracturing to tap shale formations, to remotely monitor and manage assets, and use advanced technology to heat...
(Texas Tribune, Juan Luis García Hernández, 14.Aug.2018) – After a dramatic spike in gasoline prices incited widespread protests in Mexico last year, then-presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador made a...
(Reuters, 13.Aug.2018) – Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday his administration will invest more than $11 billion to boost refining capacity in order to curb growing fuel...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 11.Aug.2018) – To-date, two oil companies are working to export fuels from the U.S.A. to neighboring Mexico, through the Port of Brownsville. “Our main client...
(Reuters, Andres Guerra Luz and Scott DiSavino, 10.Aug.2018) — U.S. natural gas exports to Mexico hit all-time highs this month, but a slower-than-expected build out of pipelines inside Mexico has...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 9.Aug2018) – The 23rd annual EnerCom conference will take place in the Denver Downtown Westin Hotel on Aug. 19-22, 2018. Companies with exposure to Latin...
[caption id="attachment_2880" align="alignnone" width="1264"] Salina Cruz Refinery in Oaxaca. Source: Bloomberg[/caption] (Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 9.Aug.2018 – Pemex’s Salina Cruz refinery halted operations Wednesday night due to a power...
(Sempra Energy, 8.Aug.2018) – Sempra Energy formed a new operating group for its North American infrastructure businesses and named Carlos Ruiz Sacristán chairman and CEO of the group, Sempra North...
(Talos Energy Inc. 6.Aug.2018) – Talos Energy Inc. will host a conference call, which will also be broadcast live over the internet, on Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 10:00 am...
(Talos Energy Inc., 6.Aug.2018) – Talos Energy Inc. announced its financial and operational results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2018, and reaffirmed the previously released pro forma full...
(Premier Oil, 6.Aug.2018) — London-based Premier Oil is focused on development of assets in parts of the world from South East Asia, the North Falklands Basin, as well as Mexico...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 1.Aug.2018) – Royal Dutch Shell plc announced the following updates during the first half of 2018. Mexico In the deep-water bid round in Mexico in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 1.Aug.2018) – Royal Dutch Shell plc offered the following outlook for the third quarter of 2018. Compared with the third quarter 2017, Integrated Gas production...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 1.Aug.2018) – If Mexico’s Pemex doesn’t have the necessary funds to invest in deep water or shale activities, how is it the state oil company...
(Pemex, 1.Aug.2018) – The CEO of Pemex Transformación Industrial stated that the new concept will help the franchise maintain its leadership in the national market The first “Flagship” service station...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 31.Jul.2018) – Mexico’s oil production will cease to decline in 2025. That’s according to details of a report published by S&P Global Platts Energy Analyst...
(Bloomberg, Amy Stillman, 30.Jul.2018) – Mexico’s incoming president named a new chief executive officer for Pemex and promised government investment of 75 billion pesos ($4 billion) in the oil sector,...
(Petrofac Limited, 30.Jul.2018) — Petrofac Limited signed an agreement to sell 49% of the Company’s operations in Mexico(1)(2), including Santuario, Magallanes and Arenque, to Perenco (Oil & Gas) International Limited...
(Pemex, 27.Jul.2018) – The company recorded operating yields of 120 billion pesos During the first quarter of 2018, it achieved an EBITDA of 288 billion pesos and an EBITDA margin...
(Pemex, 26.Jul.2018) – The works will not affect the production goals established by Pemex for the current year Starting this Saturday, July 28th and until the 4th of August, Petróleos...
(Pemex, 26.Jul.2018) – Environmental protection and sustainability, the governing principles of the State-Owned Productive Company’s work The CEO of Petróleos Mexicanos, Carlos Treviño, inaugurated the 7th Environmental Conferences this morning...
(The Geological Society, 25.Jul.2018) – The Gulf of Mexico is a world class prolific hydrocarbon system. As a result of recent energy reform the Mexican sector of this basin has...
(Pemex, 24.Jul.2018) – The spread published last night by the company Oro Negro seeks to compensate for a series of strategic mistakes made by that company In connection with the...
(Reuters, Dave Graham and Ana Isabel Martinez, 19.Jul.2018) – A decision to delay Mexican oil auctions until after the next president takes office does not augur well for opening the...
(AFP, 18.Jul.2018) – Driving through the endless dunes and cacti of the Chihuahuan desert in northern Mexico, a shimmering blue field suddenly appears on the horizon — not a mirage,...
(Natural Gas Intelligence, Ronald Buchanan, 13.Jul.2018) – Mexico President-Elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador aims to decentralize the government in a sweeping plan to ease the congestion of population, buildings, vehicles...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 13.Jul.2018) – Mexico must reduce its dependence on the United States in regards energy issues. The country can achieve this goal by increasing its refining...
(Latin America & Caribbean Gas Conference & Exhibition, 12.Jul.2018) – Influential organisations in the global natural gas industry have united to form an Advisory Board to the Latin America &...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 12.Jul.2018) – Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Latin America and the Caribbean fell for a third straight year in 2017, reported the Economic Commission for...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 12.Jul.2018) – Trinidad Drilling Ltd. announced its international joint venture (TDI) currently has two rigs operating, one in Bahrain and one in Mexico. Trinidad Drilling...
(Reuters, 12.Jul.2018) – Mexico’s next energy agenda will prioritize increasing gasoline and diesel production and later decide on possible changes to the industry reform championed by the outgoing government, according...
(TeleSur, 11.Jul.2018) – Mexico's national energy demand has become highly dependent on the United States. Mexico's next energy minister under president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said that the new...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 10.Jul.2018) – Given Mexico’s dependence on imported fuel, construction of two new refineries in the country “isn’t a business issue, it’s for energy security,” said...
(Pemex, 10.Jul.2018) – The State-Owned Productive Company filed a criminal report before the Office of the Attorney General to initiate the investigation of this suspected criminal activity. On June 29th,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 10.Jul.2018) – British Petroleum extended its operations in the country this week. Today, we have arrived to Campeche, a state with an increase in tourist...