(Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Jan.2022) — Energy briefs including Chile’s state oil and gas entity ENAP celebrating 66 yrs of operations at the Aconcagua Refinery; construction of Mexico’s Olmeca Refinery progressing according to SENER’s plans; and Fedeunep pushing for the dollarization of salaries in Venezuela. Chile — Since its foundation 66 […]
Tag: Rocio Nahle
Mexico Presents Plan To Shutter Private Power Plants
(AP, 11.Oct.2021) — Mexico’s president presented details on Monday of a proposal that is likely to squeeze out hundreds of private power generating plants and may provoke complaints under the Mexico-U.S.-Canada free trade accord. The constitutional reform presented by President AndrĂ©s Manuel LĂłpez Obrador would cancel contracts under which 34 […]
LatAm Briefs: Argentine Output, Colombian Renewables
(Energy Analytics Institute, 22.Jul.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: daily production details from Argentina’s NeuquĂ©n region to 13 renewable projects identified by Colombia’s Ecopetrol and more. Argentina — Daily production in Argentina’s NeuquĂ©n region reached a record 193,000 barrels per day, the highest volume […]
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 could restart as soon as 30 April, the state-owned company said. “For security reasons the refinery is not operating but it is hoped that work […]
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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 is seen here explaining work at the refinery to other energy sector workers while she also monitored the arrival of new equipment from state oil […]
Work Continues At Dos Bocas In Mexico
(Energy Analytics Institute, 3.Aug.2020) — Construction work at the Dos Bocas refinery continues, according to recent details from Mexico Energy Secretariat published on Twitter. __________ By Jared Yamin. © Energy Analytics Institute (EAI). All Rights Reserved.
Mexico To Sit Out Extension Of OPEC+ Oil Output Cuts
(Reuters, 6.Jun.2020) — Mexico will not join other top oil producers in extending through July output cuts aimed at propping up the price of crude, Energy Minister Rocio Nahle said on Saturday. Made up of OPEC members and allies led by Russia, the group known as OPEC+ agreed in April […]
Mexico To Remain In Opec+, No Output Cuts Planned
(Argus, 22.May.2020) — Mexico will remain within the Opec + group but has no plans for further production cuts, the energy ministry told Argus today. “Mexico will participate in the Opec + meeting in June but we do not contemplate implementing more cuts,” the ministry said. “There are no plans […]
Energy Dispute Deepens Between In Mexico
(Reuters, 16.May.2020) — The European Union and Canada have formally raised concerns to Mexico about rules they say endanger renewable energy projects, escalating tensions with its government, which late on Friday moved to tighten its control over the power industry. In letters that were leaked to Mexican media on Friday, […]
The Unexpected Holdout To A Global Oil Production Deal
(Bloomberg, 10.Apr.2020) — One of the most dramatic global oil production agreements in history has been left hanging on the approval of an unlikely character: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. For weeks Russia and Saudi Arabia, two energy powerhouses, have been sparring over oil, with their dispute sending crude […]
Pemex Not In Position To Maintain Output
(GlobalData, 10.Apr.2020) — Following today’s news (Friday 10 April) that the OPEC+ agreement, which will cut production by ten million barrels, is contingent on Mexico’s consent to also cutting production; Adrian Lara, Senior Oil & Gas Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view on the […]
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, […]
LatAmNRG briefs: Liza Destiny, Dos Bocas, PDVSA
HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 29.Aug.2019, Words: 327) — LatAmNRG briefs related to the Liza Destiny FPSO reaching Guyana, PDVSA investigating recent LPG plant explosion in Los Valles del Tuy, Dos Bocas Refinery conditioning work advancing in Mexico, and Ball Corporation signs a deal to divest its […]
LatAmNRG Heard On The Street: Gas Markets, Argentina Tender
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky and Ian Silverman, 25.Jun.2019) — Heard on the street related to the Latin America and Caribbean upstream, midstream, downstream and renewable energies sectors. ARGENTINA — During the first half of July a tender will be launched in Argentina for the construction of a new natural […]
Mexico’s AMLO Takes Office With Attack on Energy Overhaul
(Bloomberg, Nacha Cattan and Eric Martin, 1.Dec.2018) — After decades of waiting, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador punctuated his arrival as Mexico’s president with a bang, delivering a blistering attack on the energy industry overhaul passed under his predecessor and a broader excoriation of efforts to privatize industry. Speaking at the […]
Mexico’s Lopez Obrador Pushes Big Oil To Hurry, But Offers Little
(Reuters, David Alire Garcia, Marianna Parraga, 16.Oct.2018) — At his first meeting with foreign oil majors, Mexico’s leftist president-elect pushed the companies to prove themselves by quickly pumping oil from recent finds, sources say, but gave no sign of offering up new fields to reverse dwindling output. President-elect Andres Manuel […]
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 […]