(The Guardian, 10.Apr.2022) — Nine in 10 Mexicans voting in an unprecedented recall election engineered by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador have backed him to stay in office, underlining his...
(KEI Partners, 15.Feb.2022) — Regarding misinformation currently being circulated by the Mexican press. About Our Office: The office at 4400 Post Oak Pkwy has existed since April 2014, through a lease...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 26.Jan.2022) — Energy briefs including Chile’s Enap planning to invest $111.2mn in its Aconcagua Refinery; Guyana's budget speech for the fiscal year 2022 by Dr. Ashni K....
(The New York Times, 18.Jan.2022) — Two giant murals, on storage tanks at an oil refinery here, depict the rebels led by Sam Houston who secured Texas’ independence from Mexico...
(Bloomberg, 14.Jan.2022) — Colombia’s presidential front-runner Gustavo Petro is calling on ideological allies across Latin America and the world to join him in forming a new bloc to lead the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 22.Dec.2021) — Energy briefs including Chile being chosen for the 2nd consecutive yr as the most attractive emerging mkt to invest in renewable energies in the LatAm...
(Bloomberg, 9.Sep.2021) — Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is raising Pemex’s spending plan for next year to about $32 billion in a bid to boost flagging oil production. The...
(Bloomberg, 1.Dec.2020) — Mexico will cash in its oil price insurance policy this year for the fourth time only in the last two decades, receiving a payout of about $2.5...
(Platts, 5.Oct.2020) — Mexico announced on Oct. 5 a set of infrastructure projects worth almost $14 billion to reactivate the economy, including a new coker for one of its six...
(Reuters, 2.Sep.2020) — Mexico's environment minister has resigned after clashing with colleagues over policy priorities, prompting President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to defend the government's green credentials on Wednesday. Environment...
(Reuters, 2.Sep.2020) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday the 2021 budget would call for spending on priority infrastructure, including refineries and oil production, and would not...
(Reuters, 29.Jan.2020) — Mexico’s state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos wants operational control over a major offshore oil area discovered by a consortium of private companies before development gets underway, its...
(Pemex, 3.Dec.2019) — As part of the Community and Environment Support Program (PACMA), the General Director of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Octavio Romero Oropeza, presented to the Hidalgo State Governor Omar...
(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...
(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...
(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,...
(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...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 2.Jun.2019) — Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reiterated his decision to build the new Dos Bocas Refinery and continue with the planned modernization of...
(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...
(Reuters, Ana Isabel Martinez, 30.Apr.2019) — Petroleos Mexicanos swung to a 35.7 billion peso ($1.84 billion) net loss during the first quarter as revenues and crude output at the heavily-indebted...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 22.Apr.2019) — Mexico’s oil production continues to trend downward, according to recent data revealed by government officials. Oil production is currently averaging around 1.685 million...
(Forbes, Jude Clemente, 21.Apr.2019) — 1. Since peaking in 2004, Mexico's oil production has been sliced in half to below 2 million b/d Although nearly 45% back then, oil revenues...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 12.Apr.2019) — Mexico’s National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH by its Spanish acronym) announced the country’s combined proved (1P) natural gas and crude oil reserves fell 6.9%...
(Argus, 4.Apr.2019) — Mexico’s oil regulator CNH administers more than 100 contracts for oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P) that will attract $161bn in investment if all licenses...
(The New York Times, Ioan Grillo, 26.Mar.2019) — In the first months of this year, the word “huachicolero” — once a rarely used term — has been on the lips...
(Oxford Business Group, 25.Mar.2019) — On February 15 President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced the launch of Pemex’s Strengthening Programme, a six-year plan designed to improve the company’s financial...
(Houston Chronicle, Sergio Chapa, 21.Mar.2019) — Canceled energy auctions, halted pipeline projects, a ban on hydraulic fracturing, a showdown with fuel thieves, political pressure on regulators to resign and plans...
(Reuters, 21.Mar.2019) — Mexico’s deputy finance minister said on Thursday the government was considering using part of a $15.4 billion public income stabilization fund to pay some debt obligations for...
(Reuters, David Alire Garcia, 18.Mar.2019) — Mexico’s national oil company Pemex plans to triple the number of wells it will drill this year, the company’s chief executive said on Monday,...
(Reuters, Ana Isabel Martinez, David Alire Garcia, 18.Mar.2019) — Mexico invited a host of international firms, including three U.S. companies, to bid on the construction of an $8 billion oil...
(Bloomberg, Nacha Cattan, 7.Mar.2019) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO as he’s known, is doing spectacularly well with voters 100 days into his term. The latest survey...
(Reuters, 28.Feb.2019) — Mexican state oil company Pemex said on Wednesday its losses narrowed in 2018, helped by currency exchange gains as crude production and refining rates continued to decline....
(Bloomberg, Amy Stillman, 21.Feb.2019) — Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is freezing new joint-venture contracts with Petroleos Mexicanos, squashing investors’ final hopes that the Mexico energy reforms can be...
(Oilprice.com, By Tsvetana Paraskova, 15.Feb.2019) — Mexico will support Pemex by injecting US$3.6 billion into the debt-laden state-held oil firm, including by refinancing debt and cutting taxes, Mexican officials said...
(Reuters, 12.Feb.2019) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday he will respect contracts that companies have with state-run power utility CFE for pipelines that are not operational...
(Wall Street Journal, Anthony Harrup, 11.Feb.2019) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the Mexican government wants to revise natural-gas pipeline contracts with private companies under which the state-owned electric...
(IEnova, 11.Feb.2019) — Infraestructura Energética Nova (IEnova) clarifies the following regarding its natural gas pipelines in Mexico. IEnova is a Mexican company that has operated in the market for 22...
(Reuters, 28.Jan.2019) — Mexico is not considering importing any more crude oil after it imported from the United States at the end of last year, Energy Secretary Rocio Nahle told...
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 24.Jan.2019) — Five years after former president Enrique Peña Nieto ended Pemex’s monopoly and opened Mexico’s oil industry to private foreign investment, the new administration is betting...
[caption id="attachment_6297" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Source: La Jornada[/caption] (Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 16.Jan.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Mexican petroleum sector backs AMLO actions against fuel...
(Reuters, 15.Jan.2019) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday that widespread fuel theft extended to oil drilling platforms and he pledged to take actions to alleviate shortages...
(Pemex 9.Jan.2019) — The Mexican Government, through Petróleos Mexicanos, calls for the public to avoid panic shopping, as this could generate a fuel shortage. Once more, it reminds the public...
(Oilprice.com, Irina Slav, 7.Jan.2019) — Mexican drivers in several states are struggling to fill their tanks as the new government fights massive fuel theft by seeking to move more gasoline...
(Reuters, 7.Jan.2019) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday that his crackdown against fuel theft was yielding positive results, even as the intervention sparked severe fuel shortages...
(Pemex, 6.Jan.2019) — By mandate of the Mexican Government, Pemex has made significant progress in restoring fuel distribution, using various alternative supply lines in the affected states. Although there have...
(Pemex, 5.Jan.2019) — Petróleos Mexicanos reports that safer transportation methods are being used as part of the Joint Plan of the Mexican Government to combat fuel theft, which has caused...
(Wolf Street, Don Quijones, 1.Jan.2019) — “We’re not just talking about the theft of oil, but about a plan involving government insiders and a complex distribution system. It’s not easy...
(Forbes, Jude Clemente, 30.Dec.2018) — Mexico’s new President Andrés Manuel López Obrador(AMLO) took office on December 1 and will serve one six-year term. It was the largest landslide in Mexico’s...
(AP, 30.Dec.2018) — The theft of US$3 billion in fuel every year from Mexico’s state-run fuel depots and pipelines is an inside job, the country’s new president said Thursday. President...
(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...
(NGI, Christopher Lenton, 17.Dec.2018) — Though hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has transformed the energy sector in the United States, only Argentina in Latin America has followed its lead in commercially developing...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, Ian Silverman and Aaron Simonsky, 16.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs from Chile on its $515 million Energy Access Fund, Mexico’s...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 15.Dec.2018) — With the intervention of the Mexican government the most important company in the country will be rescued so that it becomes, once again,...
[caption id="attachment_5666" align="alignnone" width="2850"] Petróleos Mexicanos General Director Ing. Octavio Romero Oropeza. Source: Pemex[/caption] (Pemex, 15.Dec.2018) — The general director of Petróleos Mexicanos, Eng. Octavio Romero Oropeza, affirmed that with...
(Houston Chronicle, Sergio Chapa, 12.Dec.2018) — The Mexican government has cancelled bidding on two auctions that would have allowed hydraulic fracturing in the border state of Tamaulipas and brought more...
(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...
(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...
(Reuters, Frank Jack Daniel and David Alire Garcia, 5.Dec.2018) — Mexico’s new president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, said on Wednesday he would not cancel contracts issued to foreign and national...
(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...
(NGI, Ronald Buchanan, 15.Nov.2018) — One of main energizers of Mexico’s nascent energy reform, Juan Carlos Zepeda, has resigned as president of the upstream regulator, the Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos...
(Financial Times, Jude Webber, 14.Nov.2018) — A deputy governor of the Bank of Mexico and head of the country’s oil regulator have both stepped down early from their posts, a...
(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...
(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...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 16.Oct.2018) — Prohibiting fracking in a generalized manner, as announced by Mexico’s president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), would be an error that would benefit...
(Reuters, David Alire Garcia, Marianna Parraga, 16.Oct.2018) — At his first meeting with foreign oil majors, Mexico’s leftist president-elect pushed the companies to prove themselves by quickly pumping oil from...
(Renaissance Oil Corp., 2.Oct.2018) — Renaissance Oil Corp. announced that Mexico's president-elect, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who will take office on December 1, 2018, assured private energy executives on September...
(Prensa Latina, 1.Oct.2019) — The government of elected president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will make a strong investment to rehabilitare the six refineries presently property of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) in...
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