AMLO’s ‘Dream’ Pemex Refinery Hits Another Delay

(Reuters, 17.May.2024) — Mexican state energy company Pemex started sending 16,300 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil to its new Olmeca refinery this week, less than 5% of its total capacity, internal data seen by Reuters showed, signaling another delay. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had built hugely ambitious infrastructure project in his […]

Pemex Investigates Offshore Pipeline Fire

(Argus, 2.Jan.2021) — Mexico’s state-run Pemex is investigating the cause of a fire that broke out yesterday on a pipeline that carries hydrocarbons from an offshore production platform near Dos Bocas, Tabasco. Pemex shut the offshore pipeline that connects the platform to a separation facility near the Dos Bocas port […]

Mexico Slashes Crude Targets In 2021 Budget

(Argus, 9.Sep.2020) — Mexico’s government slashed its crude oil output forecast for the next four years, with next year’s target down by 11pc from the original goal. Mexico’s state-owned Pemex expects to produce 1.86mn b/d next year, down by 11pc on the 2.1mn b/d forecast in the company’s 2019 business […]

Pemex Closes Year Of Missed Targets

(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. But operating statistics a little more than a year after the president took office show few signs of a revitalized […]

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 […]

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 […]