(Reuters, 12.Jul.2018) – Mexico’s next energy agenda will prioritize increasing gasoline and diesel production and later decide on possible changes to the industry reform championed by the outgoing government, according...
(TeleSur, 11.Jul.2018) – Mexico's national energy demand has become highly dependent on the United States. Mexico's next energy minister under president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said that the new...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 10.Jul.2018) – Given Mexico’s dependence on imported fuel, construction of two new refineries in the country “isn’t a business issue, it’s for energy security,” said...
(Pemex, 10.Jul.2018) – The State-Owned Productive Company filed a criminal report before the Office of the Attorney General to initiate the investigation of this suspected criminal activity. On June 29th,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 10.Jul.2018) – Pemex filed a complaint with the Attorney General's Office demanding the entity investigate the alleged crimes. In its complaint, Mexico's state oil company...
(Renaissance Oil Corp. 9.Jul.2018) – Renaissance Oil Corp. received final authorizations from the relevant Mexican authorities to proceed with the development program on the company's three 100% held producing properties...
(Reuters, 6.Jul.2018) – Mexican chemicals and plastic pipe maker Mexichem agreed to buy state oil firm Pemex's stake in chemical manufacturer Petroquimica Mexicana de Vinilo. Mexichem said it would pay...
(The Council on Foreign Relations, Amy Myers Jaffe, 20.Jun.2018) – Mexico’s energy reform has taken important first steps but to come to full fruition, several additional critical reforms remain to...
(Pemex, 12.Jun.2018) – Pemex reports that, due to the arrival of Hurricane Bud to the shores of the Mexican Pacific, it is continuously monitoring the situation and preparing to activate...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 12.Jun.2018) – Illegal pipeline connections detected by state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) continue their upward trend. In April of 2018, the illegal connections rose...
(Oil and Gas Journal, Robert Brelsford, 11.Jun.2018) – Mexico’s Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), through its processing subsidiary Pemex Transformacion Industrial (formerly Pemex Refinacion), has let a contract to a partnership of...
(Control Risk, Armando Ortega, 11.Jun.2018) — For decades, the most relevant compliance legislation for international companies operating in Mexico was the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Now, as a result...
(Financial Times, Nick Butler, 10.Jun.2018) Among this year’s many elections — from Iraq to Malaysia to Russia — none is more important for the international energy business than the presidential...
(Reuters, 9.Jun.2018) -- Howard Energy Partners told U.S. energy regulators that it began injecting natural gas into the Impulsora natural gas pipeline project from Texas to Mexico on May 30,...
(Pemex, 5.Jun.2018) – The CEO of Petróleos Mexicanos, Carlos Treviño Medina, and the Governor of the State of Hidalgo, Omar Fayad Meneses, signed a memorandum of understanding, to promote and...
(Brookings, Carlos Pascual, David G. Victor, and Rafael Fernandez de Castro, 5.Jun.2018) – On July 1, Mexicans head to the polls to select their next president. While it has become...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 31.May.2018) – The partnership Saipem S.P.A / Saimexicana S.A. de C.V won the bid to rehabilitate the H-Oil Plant at the Miguel Hidalgo refinery. Mexico’s...
(Reuters, 23.May.2018) - Mexican energy investment firm Vista Oil & Gas will tie up with Jaguar Exploracion y Produccion on three onshore projects, the company said on Tuesday, acquiring 50...
(Bloomberg, Amy Stillman, 22.May.2018) – Two upstart Mexican drillers have signed the first farm-out deal in Mexico’s oil sector that doesn’t include state company Petroleos Mexicanos. Jaguar Exploracion y Produccion...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 3.May.2018) – Mexico’s state oil company PEMEX is seeking partners for land grouped into seven onshore areas containing light and super light crude oil as...
(Reuters, 27.Apr.2018) – Mexican state-run oil company Pemex said on Friday its net profit rose 29 percent in the first quarter compared with the year-earlier quarter, helped by higher crude...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 1.Apr.2018) – The consortium, comprised of three companies, was awarded a block in the southeastern basin of the Gulf of Mexico. “This is a formidable...
(Reuters, David Alire Garcia & Marianna Parraga, 27.Mar.2018) -- Mexico awarded just under half of the 35 shallow-water blocks it tendered on Tuesday, in an auction muddied by the promises...
(Reuters, 26.Mar.2018) -- Mexican state oil company Pemex said on Monday it had signed a contract with U.S. firm Lewis Energy for the exploration and extraction of a shale gas...
(Pemex, 7.Mar.2017) – The approval of the bidding process for the selection of a partner for the exploration and extraction of the Ayin and Batsil fields in the coastline of...
(Petroleum Economist, Aldo Flores-Quiroga, 8.Feb.2018) — Mexico's oil and gas industry will be completely open to private investment by end-2018. For the first time in almost eight decades, domestic and...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 1.Feb.2018) – In January Petroteq Energy Inc. reached an agreement with Mexico’s state-owned oil entity Pemex. Through its Petrobloq subsidiary, Petroteq is developing a supply...
(Reuters, Jessica Resnick-Ault, 17.Jan.2018) – BP is expanding its retail presence with plans to open 3,000 branded retail stations globally in the next five years, half in Mexico, as that...
(Platts, 11.Aug.2017) — Pemex has yet to announce the next phase of its refined products logistics open season, which could be impacting investment decisions on new midstream projects in Mexico,...
(Platts, 30.Jun.2017) — Mexican state-run utility CFE has canceled its auction to bring natural gas into the Pacific state of Baja California Sur, the company said. CFE said the gas...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 26.Mar.2017) – An inability to boost foreign and domestic investments in Venezuela’s oil sector in 2017 will result in further declines in the Caribbean nation’s...
(Pemex, 18.Mar.2017) – Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto presided over the commemoration ceremony on March 18, 2017 at the maritime terminal of Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche. He assured that Petróleos...
(Pemex, 17.Mar.2017) – José Antonio González Anaya, General Director of Petróleos Mexicanos, met with the family members of the workers who were injured in the explosion of the Dispatch Terminal...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Fidencio Casillas, 12.Mar.2017) – Mexico consumed 193 million liters of fuel in January 2017, state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Gasolinera wrote in a twitter post. Of...
(Pemex, 8.Mar.2017) – The General Director of Petróleos Mexicanos, José Antonio González Anaya, had an intense activity during CERA week, the most important event of the oil industry globally, which...
(Pemex, 3.Mar.2017) – Petróleos Mexicanos and the Australian company BHP Billiton signed an agreement to develop the deep-water Trion Block during an event hosted by the President of Mexico, Enrique...
(Renaissance Oil Corp., 11.Jan.2017) – Renaissance Oil Corp. announced that PJSC LUKOIL, one of the world’s largest oil producers, has chosen Renaissance as their partner for the Integrated Exploration and...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Fidencio Casillas, 5.Jan.2017) – The prices of gasoline in Mexico is set to increase gradually and up to 20 percent on average, effective January 1, 2017, although...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Fidencio Casillas, 6.Jun.2016) – Pemex is preparing to make payments of nearly 30 billion Mexican pesos to its providers, announced a company executive. The Mexico City-based oil...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Fidencio Casillas, 5.Jun.2016) – The consumption of premium gasoline in Mexico has evolved favorably over the last six years with the Premium grade gaining territory on the...
(Pemex, 21.Apr.2016) – Pemex’s CEO, José Antonio González Anaya; Civil Protection National Coordinator from the Ministry of the Interior, Luis Felipe Puente, and Mexichem’s CEO, Antonio Carrillo, covered the Clorados...
(Pemex, 20.Apr.2016) – The current situation in the Clorados 3 Plant of Petroquímica Mexicana de Vinilo’s (PMV) in Coatzacoalcos, is under control and presents no risk to the population. This...
(Pemex, 19.Apr.2016) – The Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Luis Videgaray, and the Pemex CEO José Antonio González Anaya, met in New York with investors, analysts, and executives of...
(Pemex, 13.Apr.2016) – Given the difficult situation of global low oil prices, Pemex faced a liquidity problem, while not a solvency one. In this context, Pemex continues to focus on...
(Keppel FELS, 27.Mar.2016) – Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), delivered two jackup rigs to Mexican company, Grupo R....
(Pemex, 28.Aug.2015) – The vessel will have the capacity to accommodate 700 platform workers. The accommodation vessel (floatel, floating hotel) built to service Pemex’s platforms, was launched at Navantia’s shipyard...
(Pemex, 25.Aug.2015) – Moody's Investors Service placed Pemex's global foreign currency and global local currency A3 ratings under review for a possible downgrade. In this regard, Pemex makes the following...
(Pemex, 14.Aug.2015) – The exchange of light crude between the U.S. and Mexico will improve the production of diesel and gasoline in the country. Pemex has been notified of the...
(Pemex, 11.Aug.2015) – Pemex and the Petroleum Workers Union of the Mexican Republic (STPRM, Sindicato de Trabajadores Petroleros de la República Mexicana) agreed to a 1-month extension for the review...
(Pemex, 11.Aug.2015) – The fire registered today in the Escobedo-Santa Catarina pipeline, in the municipality of García in Nuevo León, was caused by a blow from machinery that belonged to...
(Pemex, 11.Aug.2015) – At the installation session of the Board of Directors of the new Productive State-owned Subsidiary (PSS) Pemex Drilling and Services (Pemex Perforación y Servicios), the organic statute...
(Pemex, 10.Aug.2015) – The Second Joint Civil Court of the Third Circuit, based in the city of Guadalajara, granted the appeal filed by Pemex thus declaring the absence of damages...
(Pemex, 6.Aug.2015) – Pemex dismantles group composed of companies and public officials that had a conflict of interest in million-dollar contract. An investigation carried out by the Unit of Responsibilities...
(Pemex, 30.Jul.2015) – Pemex and the Petroleum Workers Union of the Mexican Republic (STPRM) agreed to an extension in reviewing the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that will regulate the employment...
(Pemex, 28.Jul.2015) – Pemex and Banco Santander signed a collaboration agreement to provide credit and banking services to gas stations comprising the network of service stations nationwide. The agreement will...
(Pemex, 24Jul.2015) – Pemex, through P.M.I. Comercio Internacional (PMI), and the largest refining company in Japan, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation, agreed to ship 6 MMbbls of Isthmus crude...
(Pemex, 22.Jul.2015) – Pemex and the Ministry of Agrarian, Land and Urban Development (SEDATU), through the Agrarian Attorney's Office (PA), signed a Cooperation Agreement to establish mechanisms for information, advice...
(Pemex, 20.Jul.2015) – Pemex, through its Corporate Office of Procurement and Supply, signed an agreement with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that will enable Pemex to adopt...
(Pemex, 30.Jun.2015) – The organic statute containing the organization and functions of the new productive state¬-owned subsidiary Pemex Cogeneration and Services was approved during the installation session of the Board...
(Pemex, 22.Jun.2015) – Specialized Pemex staff is taking care of the oil and gas leakage incident that occurred in the satellite platform Akal-H in the Campeche Sound. Fortunately, there are...
(Pemex, 16.Jun.2015) – Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and the Petroleum Workers’ Union (STPRM, Sindicato de Trabajadores Petroleros de la República Mexicana, for its acronym in Spanish) started negotiations for the revision...
(Pemex, 14.Jun.2015) – Maintaining or improving competitiveness in the oil industry will increasingly require a better environmental performance. Therefore, environmental protection is currently one of the key elements in the...
(Pemex, 10.Jun.2015) – Emilio Lozoya, CEO of Petróleos Mexicanos, announced the first hydrocarbon discoveries made took advantage of the new tools provided by the Energy Reform. This is the first...
(Pemex, 10.Jun.2015) – The Ministry of Energy (SENER), Pedro Joaquín Coldwell, opened the 10th Mexican Petroleum Congress at the Guadalajara Expo, which brought together 270 national and international companies with...
(Pemex, 6.Jun.2015) – Petróleos Mexicanos and BlackRock signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), in order to accelerate the development and financing of energy infrastructure projects that are considered a strategic...
(Pemex, 28.May.2015) – Petroleos Mexicanos presented its Safety, Health and Environmental Protection Strategy 2015-2025 (SSPA, for its acronym in Spanish) which outlines actions to strengthen safety and reliability culture of...
(PEMEX, 22.May.2015) – Petróleos Mexicanos carried out, for the third time, an online auction of partial lots of petroleum coke from the “Gral. Lázaro Cárdenas”, refinery located in Minatitlán, Veracruz....
(McDermott International, Inc., 6.Jan.2015) – McDermott International, Inc. has been awarded a contract to install the offshore jacket, deck and piles for the Ayatsil-A drilling platform for PEMEX Exploracion y...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 18.Sep.2013) – Tudor Pickering Holt & Co. LLC Managing Director David Pursell spoke with Energy Analytics Institute in a brief interview from Dallas, Texas....
(CSMonitor, 12.May.2012) — Argentina's renationalization of its biggest oil company, YPF, recently caused an outcry. But the cases of oil nationalization in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela show that outcomes can...