(The New York Times, 18.Jan.2022) — Two giant murals, on storage tanks at an oil refinery here, depict the rebels led by Sam Houston who […]
Tag: Pemex
NRGBriefs: Barinas Governor Election in Venezuela
(Energy Analytics Institute, 9.Jan.2022) — Energy briefs including results from the 9 Jan. 2022 governor election in Venezuela’s Barinas state; and the Deer Park refinery […]
Mexico Plans to End Oil Exports in 2023 to Reach Self-Sufficiency
(Bloomberg, 28.Dec.2021) — Mexico plans to end crude oil exports in 2023 as part of a strategy by the nationalist government of Andres Manuel Lopez […]
NRGBriefs: CFIUS Approves Pemex’s Deer Park Refinery Purchase
(Energy Analytics Institute, 22.Dec.2021) — Energy briefs including Chile being chosen for the 2nd consecutive yr as the most attractive emerging mkt to invest in […]
Security Review Stalls Shell’s Refinery Sale to Pemex
(Reuters, 30.Nov.2021) — A U.S. national security review has delayed the sale of Royal Dutch Shell‘s (RDSa.L) controlling interest in a Texas refinery to Mexico’s national oil […]
Pemex Back In Red Despite Oil Production Uptick
(Reuters, 28.Oct.2021) — Higher tax payments and foreign exchange losses pushed Mexico’s Petroleos Mexicanos back into the red in the third quarter, even as crude […]
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’s Government To Assume Pemex’s Debt Payments
(Bloomberg, 28.Oct.2021) — Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the great champion of his beloved but beleaguered state-owned oil giant, may be making his boldest […]
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’s President Earmarks $32B To Help Pemex Boost Oil Production
(Bloomberg, 9.Sep.2021) — Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is raising Pemex’s spending plan for next year to about $32 billion in a bid to […]
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 Safety Incidents Challenge Production Growth Target
(Fitch, 24.Aug.2021) — Pemex‘s reported fires at its Ku-Maloob-Zaap (KMZ) production fields may slow the company’s production growth rates, as this field is the company’s […]
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 […]
NRGBriefs: Pemex Deer Park Refinery Deal, Lasso Sworn In
(Energy Analytics Institute, 25.May.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Pemex’s Deer Park refinery acquisition being labeled a mistake by […]
Shell to Sell Interest in Deer Park Refinery to Partner Pemex
(Shell, 24.May.2021) — Shell Oil Company, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, has reached an agreement for the sale of its interest in Deer […]
Pemex To Acquire Shell’s Interest In Deer Park Refinery
(Shell, 24.May.2021) — Shell Oil Company, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, reached agreement for the sale of its interest in Deer Park Refining […]
US Oil Service Group Seeks $100mn From Mexico In Arbitration Claim
(Reuters, 18.May.2021) — A U.S. oil service group introduced a $100 million claim before a World Bank arbitration court alleging Mexico violated investor protections under […]
BHP Awards McDermott FEED Contract for Trion FPU
(McDermott, 11.May.2021) — McDermott International, Ltd has been selected by BHP PetrĂłleo Operaciones de MĂ©xico, S. De R.L. De C.V., in partnership with Pemex, to […]
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 […]
Pemex Says Minatitlan Refinery Repair To Take 90 Days
(Argus, 14.Apr.2021) — Full repairs after a major fire at Pemex’s 285,000 b/d refinery in Minatitlan, Veracruz, will likely take 90 days, although some production […]
Pemex’s Lazaro Cardenas Refinery Off-line
(Reuters, 13.Apr.2021) — Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) said on Tuesday the Lazaro Cardenas oil refinery it operates in the eastern city of Minatitlan is out of […]
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 Plans To Help Pemex But Limit Covid Spending
(Bloomberg, 17.Feb.2021) — Mexico is preparing a significant tax break for its state-owned oil firm while the constitution blocks it from taking on debt to […]
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 […]
20 Companies: The Biggest Polluters In The World
(Insider Monkey, 2.Jan.2021) — In this article we are going to list the 20 companies that are the biggest polluters in the world. Click to […]
AMLO’s Nationalism Casts Energy Projects Into Limbo
(Bloomberg, 22.Dec.2020) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s hardball tactics against foreign energy companies are halting projects and reversing a process that until recently […]
Pemex, Talos To Keep Talking Over Shared Oil Find
(Reuters, 22.Dec.2020) — Mexico’s energy ministry has approved a 60-day extension for talks between state oil company Pemex and a private consortium led by U.S.-based […]
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 […]
Pemex To Begin 2021 Oil Hedge Contracting Soon
(Reuters, 26.Nov.2020) — Mexican oil giant Pemex is about to start the process of contracting an oil hedge for 2021, a senior source at the […]
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, […]