(Ft.com, Jude Webber, 9.May.2019) — AndrĂ©s Manuel LĂłpez Obrador, Mexico’s president, has stepped up his commitment to an $8bn refinery project, rejecting three private sector bids as too costly and vowing that state oil company Pemex will build the plant. The leftist nationalist president batted aside concerns about the ability […]
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Mexico’s Next President Promises Pemex Investment
(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, in a bid to revive the state-owned oil company. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador tapped longtime political ally Octavio Romero Oropeza, […]