Pemex Releases 3Q:21 Results [PDF Downloads]

(Pemex, 28.Oct.2021) — For the fourth quarter in a row, crude oil production increased and recorded 1,752 Mbd without partners’ production. This increase as compared […]

Pemex Swings To $3.8bn Loss In Third Quarter

(Ft.com, 28.Oct.2021) — Mexico’s state oil company reported a 77.2bn peso ($3.8bn) loss in the third quarter of the year because of a higher tax burden and […]

Mexico Lowers Pemex Tax Burden

(S&P Global Platts, 28.Oct.2021) — The Mexican government has reduced the tax rate that state oil company Pemex will pay in 2022 to 40% from […]

Mexico Moves To Re-Nationalize Energy Markets

(Forbes, 28.Oct.2021) — Recent moves by Mexico’s government targeting the country’s energy industry have led to increasing concerns that President AndrĂ©s Manuel LĂłpez Obrador (AMLO) […]

Pemex Makes $31.5mn Payment To Seadrill

(Seadrill, 11.Oct.2021) — Seadrill Limited (OSE: SDRL) (OTCPK: SDRLF) and the issuer announce that at the end of September 2021, certain subsidiaries of SeaMex Ltd. […]

Mexico Restores Some Oil Production

(AP, 24.Aug.2021) — Mexico’s state-owned oil company said Tuesday the possible remains of two missing subcontractors had been found on one of its oil platforms […]

Companies Take Steps Toward Climate Neutrality

(Bloomberg, 24.Aug.2021) — Unlike the other oil majors, nationalized fossil fuel businesses are arms of the state, and therefore can’t bend as far. Petroleos Mexicanos […]

Pemex Halts Drilling At Valeriana

(By Platts, Sheky Espejo, 12.Aug.2021) — Mexico’s state oil company Pemex has stopped drilling Valeriana 1, a high-temperature high-pressure appraisal well located in the state […]

Talos Energy Provides Update On Zama

(Talos Energy, 5.Jul.2021) — Talos Energy Inc. (NYSE: TALO) provided an update regarding operatorship for the company’s Zama asset in offshore Mexico. On 2 July […]

Brazil’s Lower-Sulphur Fuel Booms In Asia

(Reuters, 1.Jul.2021) — Brazil is growing its marine fuel oil exports to Asia’s lucrative premium hubs, where rules mandating lower sulphur content have been squeezing […]

Mexican Court Extends Pemex Market Limit Ruling

(Argus, 7.Jun.2021) — A Mexican federal court reimposed market power limits on state-owned Pemex, including the mandate to publicly post wholesale prices, extending an initial […]

Pro-Pemex Bill Clears Mexico’s Lower House

(Bloomberg, 22.Apr.2021) — Mexico’s lower house of congress on Wednesday approved a reform to the country’s hydrocarbon law that removes one of the linchpins to […]

How Pemex’s Wings Got Clipped

(Reuters, 30.Mar.2021) — Shortly before taking office late in 2018, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowed to boost crude oil production at Mexican giant Pemex […]

Sener To Decide On Zama Unitization

(Talos, 26.Mar.2021) — Talos Energy Inc. announced that the unitization process of the Zama field will enter its next phase, as established in Mexican regulation. […]

Lopez Obrador Eyes Oil Permits

(Reuters, 26.Mar.2021) — Lopez Obrador argues previous administrations skewed the energy market in favor of business interests and were intent on carving up national oil […]

Mexico Seeks Better Terms From Vitol

(Reuters, 22.Mar.2021) — Mexico is looking to renegotiate some of its hundreds of millions of dollars-worth of contracts with Vitol SA after the global energy […]

LatAm Briefs: Pemex Costs, Ecuador Output

(Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Mar.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Banco do Brasil CEO resigning under pressures from Brazil’s President […]

Mexico To Absorb Pemex Amortization

(Reuters, 18.Mar.2021) — Mexico’s government will absorb the debt amortization payments as of this year of state oil firm Pemex, the world’s most indebted national […]

Mexico Taunts Dzimpona-1 Oil Find

(Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Mar.2021) — Mexican officials announced discovery of a new giant oil field called Dzimpona-1 in the state of Tabasco. Reserves at the […]

Pemex’s 4Q:20 Results [PDF Downloads]

(Energy Analytics Institute, 26.Feb.2021) — Mexico’s state oil and gas entity Pemex provided operational and financial details related to its fourth quarter 2020. What follows […]

Pemex To Host 4Q Conference Call

(Energy Analytics Institute, 25.Feb.2021) — Mexico’s state oil giant PetrĂłleos Mexicanos (Pemex) will host its fourth quarter and year-end 2020 conference call on 26 February […]

Mexico Looks to Strengthen Energy Sector

(Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Feb.2021) — Mexico’s President AndrĂ©s Manuel LĂłpez Obrador said the recent Texas freeze that saw many residents in the state lose power […]

Mexico Presses US To Guarantee Gas Supplies

(Reuters, 17.Feb.2021) — The Mexican government called the top U.S. representative in Mexico on Wednesday to press for natural gas supplies after the Texas governor […]

Work At Dos Bocas Continues [PHOTOS]

(Energy Analytics Institute, 23.Jan.2021) — Construction work at the Dos Bocas refinery in Mexico continues to move forward, announced Mexico’s Energy Secretariat Rocio Nahle. Nahle […]

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 […]

Moody’s Warns Of Pemex Downgrade

(Reuters, 15.Dec.2020) — Mexican state oil giant Pemex could sink deeper into junk territory if Mexico’s sovereign credit rating is downgraded, ratings agency Moody’s said […]

Heard Mexico: Braskem Ideas Shuts PE Complex

(Energy Analytics Institute, 3.Dec.2020) — Brazilian-based Braskem Idesa has shut down its Ethylene XXI polyethylene (PE) complex in the city of Coatzacoalcos, after a Mexican […]

Mexico Wins Over $2bn On Oil Hedge

(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 […]

Mexico Oil Executive Asked To Resign

(Bloomberg, 26.Nov.2020) — A director at the trading arm of Mexico’s state oil company was asked to resign after authorizing payments under a profit-sharing plan, […]