(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 27, 2018 that their contracts will not be canceled if they meet existing terms. During the meeting with AMEXHI, Mexico’s […]
Tag: Pemex
Pemex to Import U.S. LLS Crude for Oct Delivery
(Reuters, 1.Oct.2018) — Mexico’s state-run Pemex has launched a tender to buy 350,000 barrels of U.S. Light Louisiana Sweet (LLS) crude for October delivery, according to a document seen by Reuters on Monday, a deal that marks the first crude imports in over two decades. Pemex, which plans to use […]
Obrador’s Government Will Renovate Refineries of Petroleos Mexicanos
(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 the country, it was known today. Obrador announced that in the period 2019-2020 they will use with such purpose 50 […]
Mexico’s Oil Regulator Backs Pemex Picking Its Own Partners
(Reuters, 30.Sep.2018) — Mexico’s oil regulator supports a proposal to allow state-run oil company Pemex to pick its own equity partners for exploration and production projects, the head of the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) said on Friday. Aides to President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a fierce critic of a four-year-old […]
Mexico Must Double Oil Exploration Spending to Halt Output Fall: Pemex
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, David Alire Garcia, 28.Sep.2018) — Mexico will need to double to about $4 billion its annual oil exploration investment to reverse a 14-year decline in output, a move that will require more funding by Pemex and private producers, a top official with the state-run firm said Friday. […]
Mexico Oil Auction Winners Stay Positive
(Bloomberg, Amy Stillman, 28.Sep.2018) — Mexico’s oil auction winners BHP Billiton Ltd and DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG are hopeful that the slowdown in bid rounds is a feature of the country’s political transition and won’t be permanent. “We have expectations that things will pick up again and continue,” said DEA […]
Energy Reform To Continue To Reap Benefits For Mexico: Treviño Medina
(Pemex, 27.Sep.2018) — Petróleos Mexicanos CEO, Carlos Treviño Medina, assured that the Energy Reform is beginning to yield important benefits for Mexico by allowing new financial actors to participate that will contribute to the generation of greater wealth for the country. He stated that this new framework gives the energy […]
Pemex to Begin Importing US Crude in H2 October: CEO
(S&P Global Platts, Daniel Rodriguez, 27.Sep.2018) — Pemex plans to begin importing light crude from the US Gulf Coast in the second half of October, CEO Carlos Trevino told S&P Global Platts. The imports will enable Pemex to raise its total crude processing to 700,000 b/d-800,000 b/d in the final […]
Interview: Pemex’s CEO Expects FID for Four New Fields in 2019
(S&P Global Platts, Daniel Rodriguez, 27.Sep.2018) — Mexico’s state oil company Pemex expects to make a final investment decision (FID) and begin development of its Ixachi, Pokche, Xikin, and Suuk discoveries in 2019, CEO Carlos Trevino told S&P Global Platts. These fields are at the top of Pemex’s project pipeline, […]
Talos Energy Announces Approval Of Zama Appraisal Plan
(Talos Energy, 27.Sep.2018) — Talos Energy Inc. announced the Mexican oil & gas regulator, the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) has approved the appraisal plan for the Zama discovery. The approval of the appraisal plan by the CNH is a key approval required to commence the appraisal of the Zama discovery. […]
Venezuela Faces Fresh Blow With Ship-Fuel Rules Threatening Exports
(Bloomberg, 27.Sep.2018) — New rules forcing ships to use cleaner marine fuels may deal yet another blow to cash-strapped Petroleos de Venezuela SA, an exporter of high-sulfur fuel oil. From Jan. 1, 2020, vessels will have to switch to less-polluting bunker fuel or be fitted with equipment to curb emissions, […]
Pemex Plans up to 100,000 b/d of Light Crude Imports, Says CEO
(Reuters, David Alire Garcia, Marianna Parraga, 26.Sep.2018) — Mexican state-run oil company Pemex expects to begin importing up to 100,000 barrels per day of light crude oil, likely from the United States, from late October and at least until the end of November, its chief executive said on Wednesday. “A […]
Giving More Money to Pemex Could Hurt The Company
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 25.Sep.2018) — Contrary to what is thought, investing in Pemex and increasing its production could weaken the oil company, since it hasn’t achieved the profitability necessary to operate with good finances. The solution is no as easy as just opening the wellhead and allowing production […]
Pemex, Consortium Sign First Ever Pre-Unitization Agreement in Mexico
(Pemex, 20.Sep.2018) — Pemex and the Block 7 consortium signed the first ever pre-unitization agreement in Mexico. Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and Talos Energy, as operator of the Block 7 Consortium, announced that Pemex and the international Block 7 Consortium (Talos Energy, Sierra Oil and Gas, and Premier Oil) signed a […]
Pemex CEO Launches Management System at Cangrejera Petrochemical Complex
(Pemex, 19.Sep.2018) — The CEO of Petróleos Mexicanos, Carlos Treviño Medina, launched the Management Assessment System at the Cangrejera Petrochemical Complex, located in the state of Veracruz that will help increase the production value of oil products processed in this center, through the identification of critical inventory items, oversight the […]
Pemex Performs Earthquake Drill at 140 Facilities Across Mexico
(Pemex, 19.Sep.2018) — At 13:16 hours, on September 19th a massive, country-wide earthquake drill started and 140 Petróleos Mexicanos facilities participated simultaneously. This country-wide drill is held in Mexico each year to commemorate the National Civil Defense Day and as a day to honor the victims of the devastating 1985 […]
Mexico’s New President Should Postpone Oil Auctions: Former Pemex Official
(Reuters, Collin Eaton, 19.Sep.2018) — A former Petroleos Mexicanos board member said on Wednesday Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has enough political support to change the nation’s energy law and should postpone planned competitive oil auctions until the law is revised. Fluvio Ruiz Alarcon said, following an address at […]
Mexico Oil Production to Reach 2.6 MMb/d by 2025: Lopez Obrador
(S&P Global Platts, Daniel Rodriguez, 11.Sep.2018) — Mexico’s President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Sunday he plans to focus on developing and exploring onshore and shallow water areas under the control of state oil company Pemex to boost the country’s oil production. “We have a projection, and our plan is […]
Concerns Raised Over Contract Release Program in Mexico
(S&P Global, 6.Sep.2018) — Mexico gas market observers have expressed concern that a lack of liquidity and supply guarantees will complicate the final phase of Pemex’s natural gas contract release program, which is designed to allow the entry of new gas marketers. Mexico’s Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) last week approved […]
AMLO to Continue Drilling Service Contracts
(Bloomberg, Amy Stillman and Eric Martin, 6.Sep.2018) — Mexico’s next president said he will continue with tenders for drilling service contracts starting when he takes office. “We are preparing the rescue plan for the oil industry that will consist of producing more crude oil soon, and we will need these […]
AMLO Plans Massive New Oil Refinery
(OilPrice.com, Irina Slav, 5.Sep.2018) — Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has plans to build the country’s largest refinery with a capacity to produce 400,000 barrels of gasoline daily, Reuters reports, citing comments by Obrador during a meeting with businessmen in Monterrey. The refinery would cost US$8 billion to build […]
Mexican Fuel Consumption 778 Mb/d: Jan.-Jul. 2018
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 3.Sep.2018) — During the first seven months of 2018, the average consumption of gasoline in Mexico was 778,000 barrels per day, or 124 million liters per day. Of the total, approximately 659,000 barrels per day, or 85% of total consumption, corresponded to Pemex Magna, while […]
S&P Confirms Pemex’s Global Rating at BBB+
(Pemex, 31.Aug.2018) — Rating agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P) confirmed the global rating of Petróleos Mexicanos at ‘BBB+’ with stable outlook after its annual review of the company, and modified its individual credit profile from ‘bb’ to ‘bb-‘. Additionally, the global rating and stable outlook reflect not only the implicit […]
Pemex Pauses Light Crude Exports: Data, Source
(Reuters, Ana Isabel Martinez, Marianna Parraga, 30.Aug.2018) — Mexico’s state-run oil firm Pemex has not exported light crude since May, according to a source and export data seen by Reuters on Thursday, as it gears up to process more of the oil at its domestic refineries. Mexico’s President-elect Manuel Andres […]
Pemex’s Oil Workers Donate to Mexican Red Cross
(Pemex, 28.Aug.2018) — Pemex CEO Carlos Treviño Medina, presented the donation of 15,685,324 pesos made by the oil workers’ community in the country as part of the 2018 Fundraiser to the director of the Mexican Red Cross, Fernando Suinaga Cárdenas. He stated that Petróleos Mexicanos’s most important assets are its […]
AMLO Says NAFTA Preserves Energy ‘Sovereignty’
(Reuters, 28.Aug.2018) — Mexican president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador welcomed a deal between Mexico and the U.S. to overhaul the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that he said preserved Mexican “sovereignty” in the energy sector. The U.S.-Mexico deal was announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on Aug. 27, putting […]
Pemex Insider Destined for Key Post Under AMLO
(Bloomberg, Amy Stillman, 28.Aug.2018) — Mexico President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will name Fluvio Ruiz Alarcon as Petroleos Mexicanos’s next exploration and production chief, according to two people with knowledge of the plans. Ruiz Alarcon, a former independent adviser to Pemex, will take over on Dec. 1, when Lopez Obrador […]
Mexico’s New President To Deal Blow To Oil Industry
(Oilprice.com, Nick Cunningham, 26.Aug.2018) — Mexico will likely halt oil auctions for at least two years, dealing a blow to its oil industry. Mexico’s president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) will reportedly suspend oil auctions for at least two years, according to the Wall Street Journal, with some experts believing […]
Pemex Industrial Transformation to Challenge Cofece Fine
(Pemex, 26.Aug.2018) — As of today, the Commission of Economic Competition (acronym in Spanish, Cofece) published the fine imposed on Pemex TRI for over 418 million pesos, for allegedly having failed to comply with one of the obligations acquired in October 2016, to restore competition in marketing and distributing 7 […]
Gas Producers Counting on Mexico Have Worries
(Houston Chronicle, Katherine Blunt, 24.Aug.2018) — For years, U.S. producers have counted on Mexico to buy enormous quantities of natural gas from the prolific shale fields in West Texas and elsewhere. The fracking boom has given rise to massive pipeline projects to carry that gas across the border, where energy […]
AMLO Eyes Mexican Oil Output at 2.5 MMb/d
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 22.Aug.2018) – Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced plans to boost Mexico’s crude oil production to 2.5 million barrels per day (MMb/d) by 2021 from almost 1.9 million today. López said the plan was to boost Mexico’s production by 600,000 barrels per day during […]
Pemex Unit Fined $22 Mln by Competition Authority
(Reuters, 21.Aug.2018) — Mexico’s competition authority said on Tuesday that it has fined a unit of state-owned oil company Pemex for presenting an annual compliance report on antimonopoly measures in the recently opened fuel market a year after it was due. The Federal Commission for Economic Competition, or COFECE, fined […]
Pemex Advances Digital Changes to Boost Competition
(Pemex, 20.Aug.2018) – Pemex commenced its Digital Week, so personnel could be trained with the new technological tools developed by the Corporate Department of Informational Technology (DCTI) to improve work strategies, as they are integrated through all the areas to become more efficient in the state-owned petroleum company. At the […]
U.S.’s Perry Applauds Mexico’s Plan to End Fuel Imports
(Reuters, David Alire Garcia, 16.Aug.2018) – U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry praised the goal set out by Mexico’s incoming president to end massive gasoline and diesel imports, nearly all of which come from the United States, as a measure that will boost prosperity in its southern neighbor. During a visit […]
Pemex Ethylene, PE Output Unaffected by Pipeline Incident
(Platts, 16.Aug.2018) — State-owned Pemex’s ethylene and polyethylene production facilities ran normally even as a pipeline incident led fellow Mexican polymer producer Braskem Idesa to institute a temporary shutdown of operations, company sources said Thursday. The incident occurred last week and resulted in the shutdown of two Pemex gas processing […]
Mexico’s Struggling Pemex Awaits New President’s Risky Fix
(Bloomberg, Amy Stillman, 14.Aug.2018) – By most financial measures, Mexico’s state oil company is seriously unwell. The country’s new leader is promising to revive it. But the treatment could end up killing the patient. After borrowing more than $100 billion, Petroleos Mexicanos is one of the world’s most indebted oil […]
Mexico’s Fuel Plan Won’t Immediately Impact Texas
(Texas Tribune, Juan Luis García Hernández, 14.Aug.2018) – After a dramatic spike in gasoline prices incited widespread protests in Mexico last year, then-presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador made a promise that caught the attention of Texas officials and the state’s oil and gas industry: The veteran left-wing politician vowed, […]
AMLO Pledges More Than $11 Bln for Refineries
(Reuters, 13.Aug.2018) – Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday his administration will invest more than $11 billion to boost refining capacity in order to curb growing fuel imports. Lopez Obrador, who will take office on Dec. 1, told reporters his government plans to invest $2.6 billion to […]
Two Companies to Ship Fuels from US to Mexico
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 11.Aug.2018) – To-date, two oil companies are working to export fuels from the U.S.A. to neighboring Mexico, through the Port of Brownsville. “Our main client is P.M.I. Comercio Internacional, a subsidiary of Pemex, that’s dedicated to the import and export of hydrocarbons,” reported the daily […]
EAI brief: Pemex’s Salina Cruz refinery halts operations
HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Ian Silverman, Energy Analytics Institute, 9.Aug.2018, Words: 112) – Pemex’ Salina Cruz refinery halted operations Wednesday night due to a power outage. The refinery, located in Oaxaca, is one of six refineries owned by Pemex, and is currently processing 238,000 barrels per day (b/d), reported the daily […]
Pemex Has or Doesn’t Have Money?
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 1.Aug.2018) – If Mexico’s Pemex doesn’t have the necessary funds to invest in deep water or shale activities, how is it the state oil company will have funds to invests in new refineries as proposed by President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador? Join the discussion below […]
Pemex Inaugurates 1st Petrol Station with New Image
(Pemex, 1.Aug.2018) – The CEO of Pemex Transformación Industrial stated that the new concept will help the franchise maintain its leadership in the national market The first “Flagship” service station of the Pemex franchise, located in the colonia Centro in the municipality of Atizapán Santa Cruz, State of Mexico, was […]
Mexico Oil Output to Trend Upwards in 2027
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 31.Jul.2018) – Mexico’s oil production will cease to decline in 2025. That’s according to details of a report published by S&P Global Platts Energy Analyst and Consultant Manager Javier Díaz during an energy forum. Díaz announced details of projections for Mexican crude oil production until […]
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, […]
Petrofac Introduces Partner In Mexico
(Petrofac Limited, 30.Jul.2018) — Petrofac Limited signed an agreement to sell 49% of the Company’s operations in Mexico(1)(2), including Santuario, Magallanes and Arenque, to Perenco (Oil & Gas) International Limited (“Perenco”). The transaction is subject to approval by the Federal Competition Commission of Mexico (COFECE), which is expected in Q4 […]
Pemex Reports 2Q:18 Sales Rose 36%
(Pemex, 27.Jul.2018) – The company recorded operating yields of 120 billion pesos During the first quarter of 2018, it achieved an EBITDA of 288 billion pesos and an EBITDA margin 35 Today, Petróleos Mexicanos announced its financial and operating results for the second quarter of 2018, which show a total […]
Pemex to Carry Out Maintenance On El Señor del Mar
(Pemex, 26.Jul.2018) – The works will not affect the production goals established by Pemex for the current year Starting this Saturday, July 28th and until the 4th of August, Petróleos Mexicanos, through Pemex Exploración y Producción (Pemex Exploration and Production), will perform scheduled maintenance work on the tanker vessel Yúum […]
Pemex Aims to Reduce CO2 Emissions by 25% by 2021
(Pemex, 26.Jul.2018) – Environmental protection and sustainability, the governing principles of the State-Owned Productive Company’s work The CEO of Petróleos Mexicanos, Carlos Treviño, inaugurated the 7th Environmental Conferences this morning For Petróleos Mexicanos, environmental protection and sustainable development are high-priority values. Therefore, the State-Owned Productive Company expects to reduce its […]