(Reuters, 15.Jun.2020) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday his country would, for “humanitarian” reasons, sell gasoline to Venezuela if asked to do so, despite a raft...
(Reuters, 5.Jun.2020) — OPEC and its allies led by Russia will meet on Saturday to discuss extending record oil production cuts and to push laggards such as Iraq and Nigeria...
(Argus, 22.May.2020) — Mexico will remain within the Opec + group but has no plans for further production cuts, the energy ministry told Argus today. "Mexico will participate in the...
(Reuters,30.Apr.2020) — Mexican state oil company Pemex on Thursday said it had posted a $23.6 billion (562.13 billion peso) loss in the first quarter due to falling crude prices as...
(Reuters, 27.Apr.2020) — Mexico’s state oil firm Pemex on Monday detailed measures aimed at mitigating the effects of a steep drop in oil prices, saying it would prioritize lower-cost production...
(Reuters, 26.Apr.2020) — Mexico has begun removing staff from Gulf of Mexico oil platforms to limit the spread of the coronavirus, leaving essential personnel on board, state oil firm Petroleos...
(Oilprice.com, 25.Apr.2020) — Mexico has somewhat inadvertently found itself at the heart of the oil industry’s most burning issues of 2020 – just when it seemed that Russia, Saudi Arabia,...
(Reuters, 23.Apr.2020) — Mexican state oil company Pemex has declared force majeure over fuel imports from its trading arm PMI Comercio Internacional, two sources with knowledge of the decision said...
(Bloomberg, 23.Apr.2020) — Mexico, the largest recipient of U.S. gasoline exports, is seeking to cancel imports of the fuel from at least one U.S. company amid the rippling effects of...
(S&P Global Platts, 22.Apr.2020) — Mexico announced a Peso 622.56 billion ($25.5 billion) package on Wednesday that will help the nation face the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, with...
(Reuters, 16.Apr.2020) — The head of Mexico's powerful oil regulator said state oil firm Pemex could seek new joint venture partnerships soon, despite President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's decision to...
(Bloomberg, 10.Apr.2020) — One of the most dramatic global oil production agreements in history has been left hanging on the approval of an unlikely character: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez...
(GlobalData, 10.Apr.2020) — Following today’s news (Friday 10 April) that the OPEC+ agreement, which will cut production by ten million barrels, is contingent on Mexico’s consent to also cutting production;...
(Oilprice.com, 11.Mar.2020) — Petroleos Mexicanos has been in an unrelenting downward spiral for decades. Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned oil company, has seen a vast and speedy decline of its production rates...
(Reuters, 9.Mar.2020) — The United States, the European Union, Canada and six European nations have held joint talks on concerns over Mexico’s energy policy, sources told Reuters, as President Andres...
(Reuters, 9.Mar.2020) — A crash in crude prices has intensified pressure on the finances of Mexican state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), which is facing the threat of a ratings...
(Reuters, 5.Mar.2020) — Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday the country's new energy plan could be ready within 10 days, and the government was analysing proposals by...
(Reuters, 19.Feb.2020) — Mexican law enforcement authorities are investigating a former president, Enrique Pena Nieto, as part of an inquiry into corruption, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Pena...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 15.Jan.2020) — Executives from foreign companies are having a hard time convincing their parent companies to continue dedicating investments to activities in Mexico, according to...
(Chron.com, 7.Jan.2020) — Talos Energy touted promising new study results in Mexico's first big deepwater oil discovery, and the Houston producer is pushing to move forward so it can maintain...
(Reuters, 3.Jan.2020) — Mexico threw troubled state oil company Pemex a lifeline in 2019 to stop $80 billion in bonds held by investors worldwide being labeled junk by credit rating...
(Argus, 30.Dec.2019) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's pledges to put state-owned Pemex back at the center of policy have worried investors who had banked on joint public-private opportunities....
(Argus, 30.Dec.2019) — Mexico's oxygenates sector — long dominated by methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) — could face market pressures to move toward ethanol as an octane enhancer for gasoline...
(S&P Global Platts, 10.Dec.2019) — Pemex's largest hydrocarbon reserve discovery in 30 years is boosting the Mexican government's confidence that the troubled state-run enterprise can reverse a more than decade-long...
(Pemex, 6.Dec.2019) — The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, accompanied by the General Director of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Octavio Romero Oropeza, toured the Quesqui oil field, which according...
(NYT, Elisabeth Malkin, 1.Dec.2019) — One year into his term, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador faces a stagnant economy and spiraling violence, but Mexicans still place their hopes in him....
(Bloomberg, Amy Stillman, Peter Millard and Justin Villamil, 26.Nov.2019) — Companies that help keep Mexico’s faltering oil wells operating are waiting months to get paid and the debts are building...
(Chron.com, Sergio Chapa, 25.Nov.2019) — American oil companies operating south of the border are stepping up their cybersecurity measures after reports of a ransomware attack that allegedly knocked out computers...
(Project Syndicate, Mauricio Cárdenas, 5.Nov.2019) — Some regard Latin America as the world’s new oil frontier, and think that the region could potentially add three million barrels per day to...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(Petroleum Economist, Charles Waine, 2.Aug.2019) — Mexico's Comisión Federal de Electridad (CFE), the state-owned electricity utility, has started legal proceedings against seven natural gas pipelines. The move intensifies fears about...
(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....
(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...
(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 --...
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 22.Jun.2019) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been a vocal critic of the energy reform of his predecessor Enrique Peña Nieto, who opened in 2013...
(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...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 2.Jun.2019) — Mexico initiated construction activities related to the Dos Bocas Refinery, the country’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador President announced via a social media...
(New York Times, Kirk Semple and Azam Ahmed, 28.May.2019) — The administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico has launched its first major anticorruption prosecution, delivering on a...
(WoodMac, 15.May.2019) — The two dominant players in Latin American oil and gas – Petrobras and Pemex – should face negative net gasoline balance for decades to come. This makes...
(Reuters, Stefanie Eschenbacher and David Alire Garcia, 14.May.2019) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office in December vowing to revive state-owned energy company Pemex and put the brakes...
(Reuters, 12.May.2019) — Unidentified gunmen shot dead a trade union leader in Mexico’s central city of Salamanca, authorities said on Sunday, the latest outbreak of violence in an area plagued...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin and Ian Silverman, 9.May.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to the Sener and Pemex moving forward with the Dos Bocas Refinery...
(Ft.com, Jude Webber, 9.May.2019) — Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico's president, has stepped up his commitment to an $8bn refinery project, rejecting three private sector bids as too costly and...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 27.Apr.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to Mexico reviewing Odebrecht contracts, FMP transferring 115 billion pesos to Federal Treasury and Mexico’s...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 22.Apr.2019) — The illegal theft of combustible in Mexico is down 98% since November, announced Pemex General Director Octavio Romero Oropeza on 22 April 2019...
(NYT, Elisabeth Malkin, 11.Apr.2019) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador envisions a future in which Mexico produces more oil, gasoline and electricity. But his strategy to get there relies on...
(Reuters, 9.Apr.2019) — Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday he would consider creating a chain of government gas stations if existing fuel outlets did not charge "fair...
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 9.Apr.2019) — The Mexican government may consider creating a small network of gas stations that would sell gasoline at lower, “fair prices”, if gas station operators in...
(Reuters, 18.Mar.2019) — The chief executive of Mexican state oil company Pemex on Monday questioned credit agency downgrades to the firm’s debt, saying the same agencies had not acted when...
(AFP, 8.Feb.2019) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday he would soon announce a rescue plan for troubled state oil company Pemex, suggesting it would be worth around...
(Reuters, 20.Jan.2019) — Mexico’s state oil firm, Pemex, did not close the valve at a leaking gasoline pipeline when first notified because it was not initially thought to be an...
(Bloomberg, Pablo Rosendo Gonzalez, 17.Jan.2019) — Latina Offshore Ltd., which missed a debt payment this month, is working along with one of the consortia invited by Petroleos Mexicanos to submit...
(Reuters, 17.Jan.2019) — Traders of refined petroleum products said on Jan. 16 that pipeline system problems in Mexico may explain the third straight record increase in U.S. Gulf Coast gasoline...
(Pemex 10.Jan.2019) — Petróleos Mexicanos continues to make progress in its efforts to normalize fuel supply. The new strategy set in motion by the Mexican Government to end “huachicoleo” (the...
(AP, 19.Dec.2018) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador detailed plans Saturday to “rescue” the national oil industry by boosting crude production at the state-owned oil company by 45 per...
(Reuters, Alexandre Meneghini, 10.Dec.2018) — Mexico’s new government detailed plans Sunday to build an $8 billion oil refinery in the home state of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and to...
(Pemex, 9.Dec.2018) — The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced the National Refining Plan, which includes the rehabilitation of six refineries owned by Pemex and the construction of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 12.Dec.2018) — Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador presented the country’s National Refining Plan, which includes rehabilitation of six Pemex refineries, and construction of another...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 7.Dec.2018) — Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appointed Engineer Octavio Romero Oropeza as the new CEO of Pemex. Romero assumed the position on December...
(Bloomberg, Amy Stillman, 6.Dec.2018) — In the tropical heat of southeastern Mexico, bulldozers prep the site of a massive new crude refinery on the outskirts of Paraiso, an impoverished oil...
(Bloomberg, Nacha Cattan and Eric Martin, 1.Dec.2018) — After decades of waiting, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador punctuated his arrival as Mexico’s president with a bang, delivering a blistering attack on...
(Oilprice.com, Irina Slav, 27.Nov.2018) — Mexico’s state oil company Pemex said it produced an average 1.76 million bpd of crude in October, down 7 percent from October last year, Reuters...
(Reuters, 8.Nov.2018) — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday called for an improvement in Mexican state oil company Pemex’s financial position before it invests in building new refineries. Mexico’s...
(NGI, Andrew Baker, 6.Nov.2018) — Fitch Ratings late last month revised its outlook for Mexico, citing, among other things, potential energy policies to be implemented by incoming President-Elect Andrés Manuel...
(Bloomberg, Eric Martin, 30.Oct.2018) — Mexico spent about 23.5 billion pesos ($1.2 billion) through the third quarter from its budget stabilization fund, which historically has been used almost exclusively to...
(Reuters, 26.Oct.2018) — Mexico’s state oil company Pemex said on Friday it swung to profit in the third quarter, with higher oil prices and a foreign exchange gain boosting revenues...
(Chron.com, Rye Druzin, 24.Oct.2018) — Mexico’s national oil company is expected to only produce 1.9 million barrels a day by 2031. Mexico’s oil production could rebound to 3.5 million barrels...
(Reuters, 23.Oct.2018) — Mexico’s president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday criticized state-run Pemex’s plan to import U.S. light crude from refiner Phillips 66, calling it a sign of the...
(Reuters, Diego Oré, 17.Oct.2018) — Mexico’s incoming government will soon inherit a costly dilemma over an ethane supply contract between national oil company Pemex and a consortium led by a...
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 16.Oct.2018) — Mexico wants Big Oil to start producing from the recently discovered oil fields in Mexico as soon as possible, incoming President Andrés Manuel López Obrador...
(Foreign Policy, Lisa Viscidi, .16.Oct.2018) — A potential return to resource nationalism could set both countries back. Until this year, resource nationalism—when a government asserts its control over a country’s...
