(Reuters, 27.Mar.2020) — The price of Mexico’s oil export basket fell to $13.01 per barrel on Friday, down 11.32% from $14.67 per barrel the previous day, state oil company Pemex said. (Reporting by Adriana Barrera; Writing by Daina Beth Solomon) ***
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Falling LatAam Fuel Demand Leaves Hurt US Refiners
(Reuters, 27.Mar.2020) — Demand for refined products in Latin America is quickly drying up as the coronavirus pandemic worsens, leaving U.S. refiners without their primary export destination as the virus spreads. The crisis has nearly shut down worldwide air travel and is destroying fuel demand, which could fall by 15% […]
LatAm NRG Producers Sweat To Cover Costs
(Reuters, 24.Mar.2020) — A price war between the world’s oil powerhouses is leaving many producers in Latin American struggling to cover production costs, boosting chances of output cuts and investment delays in coming months. Global oil price benchmarks have had their steepest declines in decades in a perfect storm of […]
Latin America’s Spot Oil Sales Hit By Low Prices
(Reuters, 20.Mar.2020) — Spot sales of Latin America’s heavy crudes mostly dried up this week amid a demand contraction and steep slump in oil prices that left some heavy grades below the $10-per-barrel level, traders from producing companies told Reuters on Friday. Latin American crude prices have fallen by around […]
Pemex Vulnerable To Oil Prices Below $20/bbl: Fitch
(Reuters, 20.Mar.2020) — Mexico’s heavily-indebted state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos is increasingly vulnerable to low crude prices as the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak erodes demand and sends markets tumbling, Fitch Ratings said on Friday. The ratings agency called Pemex, as the company is known, the “most vulnerable” among its peers in […]
Pemex’s Maya Crude Reverses Gains: Platts
(Reuters, 20.Mar.2020) — The official selling price of Mexican state-run oil company Pemex’s flagship Maya heavy crude for U.S. Gulf Coast delivery fell by $2.89 per barrel on Friday, according pricing data from S&P Global Platts. Maya crude’s closing price stood at $15.13 per barrel, or down 16% from previous […]
Pemex Received First Payment From Its Hedge
(Bloomberg, 12.Mar.2020) — Petroleos Mexicanos received its first payment from its annual oil hedge, as prices fell the most in three decades amid a producer battle for market share, and the fast-spreading coronavirus. Pemex protected its 2020 oil exports at an average of $49 a barrel, receiving the first payment […]
Pemex Receives First Oil Hedge Payout
(Reuters, 12.Mar.2020) — Mexican state oil firm Pemex said on Thursday it had received the first payment from a hedging program protecting its revenue from price swings, and that it has $7.85 billion available in credit lines, and will continue honoring debts to suppliers. Global oil prices have fallen to […]
Mexico’s Oil Hedge Just Saved Its Economy
(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 for the last 15 years, and at times it has vied for position as the most indebted oil company in […]
Mexico Says Hedge Covers Oil Income
(Reuters, 10.Mar.2020) — Mexico’s finance minister said on Tuesday a $1.4 billion hedge program completely covered 2020 national oil income following a steep drop in crude prices, adding the government needed to accelerate spending to help stimulate a flagging economy. The oil hedging program, the world’s largest financial oil deal, […]
Latin America Oil Plays Rocked By Oil Price Rout
(Argus, 9.Mar.2020) — Latin America’s bold plans to tap deepwater, unconventional and heavy oil reserves — already under pressure by coronavirus in key demand markets — face an even greater challenge from this week’s oil price crash. Ice Brent crude futures prices plunged by more than 20pc today to a […]
Nations Meet to Discuss Mexico Energy Concerns
(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 Manuel Lopez Obrador pushes for a bigger role for the state in the sector. The unusually broad diplomatic encounter is […]
Oil Price Plunge Ramps Up Pressure On Pemex
(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 downgrade after posting one of its worst-ever losses last year. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office 15 months […]
AMLO Says New Energy Plan Could Be Ready In March
(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 the private sector for joint energy investments. Mexico has pursued a more state-led approach to the energy sector under Lopez […]
Pemex Posts Steep 2019 Loss In Blow To AMLO’s Plan
(Reuters, 27.Feb.2020) — Petroleos Mexicanos posted a $18.3 billion net loss for 2019 on Thursday, nearly doubling the previous year’s loss and dealing a major blow to the Mexican president’s quest to revive the heavily-indebted state oil company. The company known as Pemex said it had racked up a $9 […]
Mexico Spent $1.37 Billion On Oil Hedge
(Reuters, 6.Feb.2020) — Mexico spent more than 25 billion pesos ($1.37 billion) on its 2020 oil hedging program, the country’s finance ministry confirmed on Wednesday after financial website Sentido Comun reported the figure. The hedging program, the world’s largest, is to insure Mexico’s revenues from oil sales against price crashes. […]
Pemex Underwhelming At Priority Fields
(Natural Gas Intelligence, 28.Jan.2020) — Mexican national oil company PetrĂłleos Mexicanos (Pemex) is behind schedule at the 20 fields it deemed last year as “high priority” and crucial to reversing years of decline in hydrocarbons production, according to upstream regulator ComisiĂłn Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH). So far, 17 of the […]
Pemex Head Visits Xikin, Xanab And Tlacame
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 19.Jan.2020) — Officials with Mexico’s state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) visited three wells: Xikin, Xanab and Tlacame 3. The latter was drilled using the Kukulkán platform, owned by Pemex and operated 100% by Pemex employees. © Energy Analytics Institute (EAI). All Rights Reserved. ***
Talos Says Zama Reservoir Shared With Pemex
(Argus, 7.Jan.2020) — Third-party evaluation showed that 60pc of Mexico’s major Zama crude discovery lies within Talos Energy’s shallow-water block 7, with the remainder on state-owned Pemex’s acreage, the private operator has notified the energy ministry. The official notification of a joint reservoir by Talos Energy moves deciding how the […]
Three Injured In Fire On Akal-C6 Platform
(Reuters, 7.Jan.2020) — Three people were injured in a fire on a platform run by Mexican state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) on Tuesday, the company said, briefly leading to the evacuation of the rig. The fire broke out on the Akal-C6 platform in the Sound of Campeche in the […]
Talos Energy Touts Zama Study Results
(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 control of the project. Talos’ hold on the potentially prolific Zama discovery is somewhat tenuous because Mexico’s state energy company […]
Mexico And Pemex Face Downgrade Risk In 2020
(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 agencies. Now, investors worry that the state itself is a risk for Pemex. Mexico’s creditworthiness came under increasing scrutiny in […]
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 […]
MTBE, Ethanol Face Off In Mexico
(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 in 2020. MTBE will likely continue to be the prevailing enhancer, but further expansion of private suppliers in 2020 could […]
Pemex’s Emergency Drill At Dos Bocas Terminal
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 18.Dec.2019) — Mexico’s state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) announced plans to conduct an emergency exercise as part of its annual efforts related to emergency prevention and responses. The emergency exercise — to be held Thursday 19 December 19, at 10 a.m. — will involve […]
Pemex Reserve Discovery Boosts Mexico’s Oil Ambitions
(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 decline in crude oil production. An analysis of initial production results and seismic data from the onshore Quesqui field led […]
Pemex Finds Giant Oil Field In Quesqui
(Pemex, 6.Dec.2019) — The President of Mexico, AndrĂ©s Manuel LĂłpez Obrador, accompanied by the General Director of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Octavio Romero Oropeza, toured the Quesqui oil field, which according to seismic data confirms the existence of a giant oil reservoir of at least 500 million barrels, the equivalent of […]
Pemex Supports Hidalgo Municipalities
(Pemex, 3.Dec.2019) — As part of the Community and Environment Support Program (PACMA), the General Director of PetrĂłleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Octavio Romero Oropeza, presented to the Hidalgo State Governor Omar Fayad Meneses these vehicles worth 9.3 million pesos to be used in 12 municipalities in order to strengthen actions in […]
As Troubles Grow, Mexicans Keep the Faith With AMLO
(NYT, Elisabeth Malkin, 1.Dec.2019) — One year into his term, President AndrĂ©s Manuel LĂłpez Obrador faces a stagnant economy and spiraling violence, but Mexicans still place their hopes in him. Every day before dawn, a knot of unemployed men gather at the gate of a construction site, hoping to land […]
Unpaid Bills Add To Pemex Woes
(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 up, complicating efforts to revive an industry whose production has plunged by half since 2004. Pemex, facing pressure from the […]
Pemex Cyberattack Has US Cos. Taking Precautions
(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 at Mexico’s state-run oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex. Mexican media outlets have been reporting over the past two weeks […]
Pemex Guarantees Timely Payroll Payment
(Pemex, 15.Nov.2019) — PetrĂłleos Mexicanos urges the population to ignore fake press releases currently circulating in various news and social media, claiming alleged delays in the payment of the payroll and Christmas bonuses to the company’s workers are unfounded. Pemex guarantees that its processes in the human resources department, workers’ […]
Pemex Not Willing To Pay Ransom After Cyberattack
(Reuters, 13.Nov.2019) — Mexican national oil company Pemex will not pay a ransom demanded by suspected cyberattackers who targeted the firm’s computer systems, Energy Minister Rocio Nahle told reporters on Wednesday. Nahle, who also serves as chair of the Pemex board, added that the attack hit the company’s administrative headquarters […]
Hacker Wants $5mn In Ransom From Pemex
(Bloomberg, Amy Stillman, William Turton and Alyza Sebenius, 13.Nov.2019) — The hacker behind a cyberattack that has crippled Petroleos Mexicanos’s computer systems since the weekend is hoping to squeeze almost $5 million out of the company and appears to have set a deadline of Nov. 30. Pemex has other ideas, […]
Pemex Says Operations Normal
(Pemex, 11.Nov.2019) — In the light of the tidal wave of false rumors and press releases, articles and social media posts that claim there was an attack on the internal computing systems of PetrĂłleos Mexicanos, the company reports the following: PetrĂłleos Mexicanos is operating normally. The company’s operating and production […]
Don’t Count On Oil To Reignite Latin America
(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 global output during the next decade. But, although Brazil is well placed to ramp up production, Mexico and Venezuela seem […]
McDermott Updates On PEMEX Abkatun-A2 Platform
(McDermott, 28.Oct.2019) — McDermott International, Inc. announced substantial completion of PEMEX Exploracion y Produccion’s Abkatun-A2 Platform. The production platform is located in Mexico’s Bay of Campeche in the Gulf of Mexico. This milestone means the platform has now been turned over to the owner to begin commercial operations. “With substantial […]
Mexico Seeks Interpol To Find Former Oil Union Boss
(Reuters, 26.Oct.2019) — Mexican prosecutors have requested help from Interpol to locate the former head of Mexico’s oil workers union, Carlos Romero Deschamps, just days after he resigned amid allegations of wrongdoing, a government official said on Saturday. “The attorney general’s office has asked for Interpol to intervene,” said the […]
Mexico Taps Banks As It Nears End Of Hedge
(Reuters, Devika Krishna Kumar and Stefanie Eschenbacher, 23.Oct.2019) — Mexico’s finance ministry has completed a majority of its annual oil hedging program, working with at least four top investment banks and oil major Royal Dutch Shell, sources said, after challenges slowed the world’s largest oil financial deal this year. JPMorgan […]
Powerful Boss Of Mexico’s Oil Workers Union Resigns
(NYT, Elisabeth Malkin, 16.Oct.2019) — The longtime leader of Mexico’s oil workers union, a powerful figure who had become emblematic of graft in the state-owned oil company and yet seemed untouchable, resigned on Wednesday in a symbolic victory for Mexico’s president in his fight against corruption. The resignation of Carlos […]
PMI Comercio Internacional BODs Appoints New Members
(Pemex, 27.Sep.2019) — During its 122nd ordinary session, following a proposal placed by its Chairman, the Board of Directors of PMI Comercio Internacional appointed Ulises Hernández Romano as its new CEO, from October 1st, 2019. Ulises Hernández Romano has worked for the State-Owned productive company for 20 years, acting as […]
Pemex Announces Early Participation Results
(Pemex, 26.Sep.2019) — PetrĂłleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) announced the early participation results of (a) its offers to exchange any and all of its outstanding series of securities set forth in the table below under the heading “Any and All Offers” (collectively, the “Any and All Securities”, and such offers, the “Any […]
Pemex Says “Workers Are Its Greatest Asset”
(Pemex, 24.Sep.2019) — PetrĂłleos Mexicanos (Pemex) reports that the recent demonstrations demanding changes to the working conditions of its trusted employee base are imprecise and aimed at discrediting the responsible, rational and efficient use of the financial resources that characterizes the current management of the company. Various actions have been […]
Pemex Says Debt Reduced By $5.0058bn
(Pemex, 23.Sep.2019) — Today, PetrĂłleos Mexicanos (Pemex) successfully finalized an early debt payment operation. This operation was announced on September 12, and consisted on using the capital received from the Federal Government to issue an offer to repurchase bonds with maturity in the next few years for an amount of […]
Pemex Personnel Takes Part In National Quake Drill
(Pemex, 19.Sep.2019) — For the commemoration of the National Civil Protection Day, management and operating personnel at various PetrĂłleos Mexicanos (Pemex) facilities in the country participated in the 2019 National Quake Drill, which worked with a hypothetic earthquake of 8.6 degrees Richter in magnitude, with an epicenter in the coastline […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]