(IMG, 17.Sep.2019) — Infraestructura Marina del Golfo (IMG), a joint venture between TC Energy Corporation (TC EnergĂa) and Infraestructura EnergĂ©tica Nova (IEnova), announced commencement of the commercial operation of the Sur de Texas-Tuxpan (Sur de Texas) marine natural gas pipeline. With a transportation capacity of 2.6 billion cubic feet per […]
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Pemex To Refinance Debt
(Pemex, 11.Sep.2019) — Pemex announced a series of measures intended to improve its financial condition. This operation considers a capital contribution from the Federal Government equivalent to 5 billion US dollars to be used for the prepayment of debt. In line with the strategy of strengthening the company’s finances under […]
Talos Energy Receives Extension For Block 7
(Talos, 11.Sep.2019) — Talos Energy Inc. announced that it has received a two-year contract term extension as well as regulatory approvals for additional exploration activities on Block 7, located in the offshore portion of Mexico’s prolific Sureste Basin. Talos is the operator of Block 7 in a consortium with its […]
Pemex Reveals Measures To Improve Financial Condition
(Pemex, 11.Sep.2019) — PetrĂłleos Mexicanos (Pemex) announced a series of measures intended to improve its financial condition. First, Pemex announced that it expects to receive a capital contribution (the “Capital Contribution”) in an amount in Mexican pesos equivalent to U.S. $5.0 billion from the Government of Mexico as part of the Government’s […]
Alpek Starts Ops At CogeneraciĂłn de Altamira
(Alpek, 10.Sep.2019) — Alpek, S.A.B. de C.V. says it has met all the legal dispositions required by the ComisiĂłn Federal de Electricidad (CFE) and Centro Nacional de Control de EnergĂa (CENACE), to begin commercial operations at CogeneraciĂłn de Altamira S.A. de C.V., its 350MW electric power cogeneration plant in Altamira, […]
Moody’s: PEMEX Ratings Close To Boundary
(Moody’s, 9.Sep.2019) — The credit ratings of a substantial number of energy companies in the Americas are currently near the “crossover zone,” or the boundary between investment grade and speculative grade, Moody’s Investors Service says in a new report. Only seven, however, are in the zone, with potential “rising stars” […]
Mexico Boosts Spending In 2020 Budget
(Aljazeera, 9 Sept 2019) — Mexico‘s government cautiously freed up funds for spending in its 2020 budget proposal on Sunday, slightly loosening a primary surplus target as it aimed to balance big welfare promises with the reality of a stagnant economy. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador‘s second budget since winning […]
Mexico Budget Assumes 1982 Output Surge
(Bloomberg, Amy Stillman, Nacha Cattan and Eric Martin, 9.Sep.2019) — Mexico’s balanced budget for next year depends in part on its oil company boosting production by about 17%, something that the country hasn’t achieved in almost four decades. Pemex, as the Mexican national oil producer is known, is expected to […]
Mexico Launch World’s Largest Oil Hedge Program
(Reuters, Devika Krishna Kumar, Stefanie Eschenbacher, 5.Sep.2019) — Mexico has made the first moves to launch its annual $1 billion oil hedging program by asking banks for quotes, sources familiar with the deal said, while buying in financial oil options contracts for 2020 has risen in recent days, consistent with […]
Mexico To Launch World’s Largest Oil Hedge
(Reuters, Devika Krishna Kumar, Stefanie Eschenbacher, 5.Sep.2019) — Mexico has made the first moves to launch its annual $1 billion oil hedging program by asking banks for quotes, sources familiar with the deal said, while buying in financial oil options contracts for 2020 has risen in recent days, consistent with […]
LatAmNRG briefs: Liza Destiny, Dos Bocas, PDVSA
HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 29.Aug.2019, Words: 327) — LatAmNRG briefs related to the Liza Destiny FPSO reaching Guyana, PDVSA investigating recent LPG plant explosion in Los Valles del Tuy, Dos Bocas Refinery conditioning work advancing in Mexico, and Ball Corporation signs a deal to divest its […]
OPIS Mexico Fuel Week Opens Registration
(OPIS, 28.Aug.2019) — OPIS (Oil Price Information Service) by IHS Markit has opened registration for the third annual OPIS Mexico Fuel Week, October 21-24, 2019. The event will be held in Mexico City at the Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel. Confirmed speakers from both government and industry include: — Representative Manuel […]
Mexico Eyes $4.5bn Savings From Contract Renegotiation
(Reuters, 27.Aug.2019) — Mexico said on Tuesday a deal had been struck with a group of companies to renegotiate the terms of natural gas pipeline contracts signed under the previous administration that will save the government $4.5 billion. The deal announced by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and the head […]
Trelleborg Awarded Fast Track Contract By MODEC For Eni Mexico Area 1 FPSO
(Trellebord, 24.Aug.2019) — Trelleborg’s offshore operation has been awarded a fast track contract to produce over 80 laminated elastomeric bearings for MODEC, the leading specialist for offshore floating solutions. The first delivery was in July 2019 and the bearings will be installed on a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) […]
Wind Developers Losing Heart On Mexico Amid Stall
(Chron.com, Emily Pickrell, 22.Aug.2019) — Mannti Cummins, a Corpus Christi wind developer, has spent the last 17 years building wind energy projects in the Rio Grande Valley, from Brownsville to Baffin Bay. So when Mexico deregulated its power markets as part of the nation’s landmark energy reforms six years ago, […]
Mexican Gov’t To Keep Investing In Pemex
(Reuters, 16.Aug.2019) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday that his government would keep investing in state oil company Pemex, which is on the verge of losing its investment grade rating. Fitch Ratings downgraded roughly $80 billion of bonds to speculative grade – or “junk” status – […]
IEnova Suspends CFE Deal Related To El Oro Pipeline
(IEnova, 5.Aug.2019) — Infraestructura EnergĂ©tica Nova, S.A.B. de C.V., (IEnova), reports that, within the framework of the Negotiation Rounds convened by the Federal Government related to the Natural Gas Pipeline Transportation Services Agreements entered into by the Federal Electricity Commission (“CFE”) and some private companies, it executed a Term Suspension […]
Mexican Lawsuit Risks Permian Route To Market
(Petroleum Economist, Charles Waine, 2.Aug.2019) — Mexico’s ComisiĂłn Federal de Electridad (CFE), the state-owned electricity utility, has started legal proceedings against seven natural gas pipelines. The move intensifies fears about both the anti-business agenda of the country’s president Andres LĂłpez Obrador and further delays to a much-needed release valve for […]
Vista Oil & Gas Prices Public Offering With NYSE Listing
(Vista, 25.Jul.2019) — Vista Oil & Gas, S.A.B. de C.V. announced today the pricing of the underwritten public offering of the Company’s Series A shares as part of the global primary offering of 10,000,000 Series A shares. The global offering consisted of an international offering in the United States and […]
Core Laboratories Sets Earnings Call Schedule
(Core Laboratories, 24.Jul.2019) — Core Laboratories N.V. scheduled a conference call to discuss Core’s second quarter 2019 earnings announcement. The call will begin at 7:30 a.m. CDT / 2:30 p.m. CEST on Thursday, 25 July 2019. To listen to the call, please go to Core’s website at www.corelab.com. ***
Core Lab Reports 2Q:19 Results
(Core Laboratories, 24.Jul.2019) — Core Laboratories N.V. reported that continuing operations resulted in second quarter 2019 revenue of $169,000,000. Second quarter 2019 revenue was impacted by a mid-quarter divestment of a non-strategic business in Asia Pacific and a softer than expected North American services market. Core’s operating income was $28,000,000 […]
Vista Commences Proposed Public Offering
(Vista, 18.Jul.2019) — Vista Oil & Gas, S.A.B. de C.V. announced commencement of an underwritten public offering of the Company’s Series A shares (the “Series A shares”), which may be represented by American Depositary Shares (ADSs), as part of a global primary offering of 10,000,000 Series A shares pursuant to […]
Pemex Presents Business Plan 2019-2023
(Pemex, 16.Jul.2019) — In the presence of the president of Mexico, AndrĂ©s Manuel LĂłpez Obrador, the chief executive officer of PetrĂłleos Mexicanos, Octavio Romero Oropeza, presented Pemex’s Business Plan for the years 2019-2023. It was unanimously approved by the Board of Directors and lays the foundations for the modernization of […]
Talos Energy To Announce 2Q:19 Results 7 August 2019
(Talos, 16.Jul.2019) — Talos Energy Inc. intends to release second quarter 2019 results for the period ended June 30, 2019 on Wednesday, August 7, 2019 after the U.S. financial market closes. In addition to this release, Talos Energy will host a conference call, which will be broadcast live over the […]
Talos Increases Credit Facility Commitments And Provides Hedging Update
(Talos, 10.Jul.2019) — Talos Energy Inc. provided an update on the results of its semi-annual borrowing base redetermination and recent hedging activities. Effective July 3, 2019, the Company’s borrowing base of $850 million was unanimously reaffirmed by participants of its syndicated credit facility. In conjunction with the regularly scheduled redetermination, […]
Siemens Turbine Generator To Power Eni Mexico Area 1
(Siemens, 9.Jul.2019) — Siemens will provide MODEC with three 34-megawatt (MW) SGT-A35 gas turbine power generation packages that will power MODEC’s floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The vessel, referred to as the “Eni Mexico Area 1 FPSO,” will be deployed in the Offshore Area 1 approximately 6 miles […]
Mexico Auctions Moratorium Give Rival Brazil An Edge
(Bloomberg, Peter Millard and Amy Stillman, 9.Jul.2019) — Mexico’s moratorium on auctioning off its oil riches to foreign producers is giving a leg up to nearby rivals Brazil and Guyana. ‘Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has halted new bid rounds, and state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos has disappointed potential partners by […]
Arrest Warrant Issued For Former Pemex CEO
(Reuters, 5.Jul.2019) — Mexico’s attorney general’s office said on Friday that a judge issued arrest warrants for the former chief executive of state oil firm Pemex, Emilio Lozoya, three of his family members and one other person, in a graft case involving Brazilian builder Odebrecht. The Finance Ministry said in […]
Eni Starts Production Offshore Mexico At Area 1
(Eni, 2.Jul.2019) — Eni has started the early production phase from the MiztĂłn field in Area 1, located in the Campeche Bay offshore Mexico. This is the first step in the development of Area 1, estimated to hold 2.1 billion of oil equivalent in place (90% oil) in the Amoca, […]
Building LNG-powered Ships Along U.S./Mexico Border
(Chron.com, Sergio Chapa, 1.Jul.2019) — Keppel AmFELS has built offshore drilling rigs and platforms here for decades. But the last few years have not been particulary kind to the offshore energy companies, which in the face of low oil prices and competition from shale, has delayed, canceled and scaled back […]
Pemex To Invest Combined $283 Million In Uchbal Field
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 29.Jun.2019) — Mexico’s state oil company PetrĂłleos Mexicanos (Pemex) plans to invest $266 million in development activities related at the Uchbal field, corresponding to its allocation AE-0006-5M-Amoca YaxchĂ©-04, and according to the exploration and production plan approved by Mexico’s National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH by its […]
Pemex Refinances $8 Billion In Debt
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 28.Jun.2019) — Mexico’s state oil and gas entity Pemex announced refinancing of $8 billion in debt with support of 23 national and international banking institutions, the company announced in an official statement. The agreement allows Pemex to refinance up to $2.5 billion in debt and […]
Pemex BODs Approves Merger Of PEP-PPS And TRI-Pemex Etileno
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 28.Jun.2019) — The Board of Directors of PetrĂłleos Mexicanos (Pemex) unanimously approved, at the proposal of the General Director, Octavio Romero Oropeza, the merger of subsidiary production companies: Pemex Exploration and Production (PEP) with PPS and Pemex Industrial Transformation (TRI) with Pemex Etileno. In Extraordinary […]
Premier Makes Significant Resource Upgrade At Zama
(Premier, 27.Jun.2019) — Premier has significantly increased its resource estimate of the Zama field offshore Mexico, following its evaluation of the data acquired from the highly successful Talos Energy-operated Block 7 Zama appraisal campaign. The campaign comprised two appraisal wells (Zama-2 and Zama-3) and a vertical side-track (Zama-ST1) which was […]
Talos Energy Completes Zama Appraisal Program
(Talos, 26.Jun.2019) — Talos Energy Inc. provided an update on the Zama appraisal program in Block 7, located in the offshore portion of Mexico’s prolific Sureste Basin. Talos is the operator of Block 7 in a consortium (the “Consortium”) with its partners Sierra Oil & Gas, a Wintershall DEA company, […]
Mexico Moves To Ramp Up Oil Production
(Oilprice.com, Haley Zaremba, 26.Jun.2019) — It’s been a rough couple of years–make that decades–for Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos. The country’s oil production rates have been in freefall for the last 15 years, and the struggling organization has subsequently become one of the most indebted oil companies in the […]
Pemex To Supply 240 MMcf/d To Yucatan Peninsula
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 25.Jun.2019) — Mexico’s state oil and gas entity Pemex will supply the Yucatan Peninsula with 240 million cubic feet (MMcf/d) of natural gas starting 15 July, according to a statement by Mexico’s Energy Secretariat and the National Center for Natural Gas Control, reported online media […]
Mexico’s CNH Approves BP’s Offshore Drilling Plan
(Reuters, Rebekah Ward, 25.Jun.2019) — Mexico’s oil regulator on Tuesday approved a $97 million plan for drilling in an offshore area operated by British supermajor BP in the southern Gulf of Mexico. The four-year exploration plan approved by the national hydrocarbons commission (CNH) covers a 700,000 square kilometer shallow water […]
Mexico Open Season: GMEC’s Monroy And Baker Institute’s Duhalt Weigh In
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky and Jared Yamin, 25.Jun.2019) — As part of Energy Analytics Institute’s ongoing coverage of the Latin America and Caribbean energy sectors from conventionals and unconventionals to renewables, two oil and gas experts covering Mexico – GMEC’s Director Gonzalo Monroy and Baker Institute’s Fellow Adrian Duhalt […]
LatAmNRG Heard On The Street: Gas Markets, Argentina Tender
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky and Ian Silverman, 25.Jun.2019) — Heard on the street related to the Latin America and Caribbean upstream, midstream, downstream and renewable energies sectors. ARGENTINA — During the first half of July a tender will be launched in Argentina for the construction of a new natural […]
The End Of Mexico’s Rigorous Energy Reform
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 22.Jun.2019) — Mexican President AndrĂ©s Manuel LĂłpez Obrador has been a vocal critic of the energy reform of his predecessor Enrique Peña Nieto, who opened in 2013 Mexico’s oil and gas sector to private investment for the first time in seven decades. Six months into office, […]
Mexico To Cut Pemex’s Profit-Sharing Duty To 54%
(Platts, Daniel Rodriguez, 21.Jun.2019) — The Mexican government will cut Pemex’s profit-sharing duty, known as DUC, to 54% by 2021 from the current 65%, the company’s financial director, Alberto Velazquez, said Thursday. “Results from this plan might be huge, spectacular,” Velazquez said at a presentation at the Mexican Petroleum Congress. […]
Pemex: New Refinery Environmentally Viable
(Reuters, David Alire Garcia, 19.Jun.2019) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s push to build a new oil refinery involves high risks of flooding and other environmental issues, according to government documents published late on Tuesday, but is described as otherwise viable. The documents cover environmental impacts declared by state […]
Matamoros Turbine Plant To Supply U.S., LatAm Projects
(Chron.com, Sergio Chapa, 17.Jun.2019) — Wind turbine blades that are now being made in the Mexican border town of Matamoros will soon find themselves installed in projects throughout the United States and Latin America. German wind turbine maker and wind farm developer Nordex Acciona recently began production at the company’s […]
Mexican Oil Regulator Cancels October Tender To Pick Pemex Partners
(Reuters, 13.Jun.2019) — Mexico’s oil regulator announced on Thursday the cancellation of October auctions to pick joint-venture partners in seven onshore areas for state oil company Pemex, which is struggling to reverse more than a decade of falling crude output. The move represents a fresh blow to the flagship energy […]
IEnova Reports Mechanical Completion Of Sur de Texas-Tuxpan Pipeline
(IENova, 11.Jun.2019) — Infraestructura Marina del Golfo, a joint venture between TC Energy Corporation and Infraestructura EnergĂ©tica Nova (IEnova), announced its Sur de Texas-Tuxpan Pipeline project in northeastern Mexico has achieved mechanical completion. Sur de Texas-Tuxpan will provide capacity to transport 2.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. […]
Shell To Invest At Least $397 Million In Deepwater Oil Projects In Mexico
(Reuters, 11.Jun.2019) — Mexico’s independent oil regulator on Tuesday approved deepwater energy exploration plans for five areas operated by Royal Dutch Shell Plc in Mexican waters near the maritime border with the United States. The plans commit the Anglo-Dutch oil major to invest at least $397 million over the next […]
Mexico’s Fuel Market To Be More competitive in 2020
(Platts, 10.Jun.2019) — Mexico’s already liberalizing fuel market will become far more competitive in 2020 as several private midstream projects start operations, multiple oil company executives say. Infrastructure shortages has allowed state Pemex to control more than 90% of Mexico’s gasoline imports in March, according to government data, despite the […]
Challenges Stall Mexico’s Billion-dollar Oil Hedge In 2019
(Reuters, Devika Krishna Kumar, Stefanie Eschenbacher, and Marianna Parraga, 7.Jun.2019) — The world’s biggest and most secretive financial oil trade is facing unusual roadblocks this year. Mexico typically buys as much as $1 billion worth of financial positions to protect its revenues from oil sales for the coming year against […]
Pemex Debt Holders See Downgrade To ‘Junk’ Status Ahead
(Reuters, Stefanie Eschenbacher and Ana Isabel Martinez, 6.Jun.2019) — Investors at six of the world’s largest asset managers, all of whom own the bonds of Mexican national oil company Pemex, expect them to be downgraded to “junk” status within months. This could spur massive sales of the company’s bonds and […]