Mexico
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March 22, 2021
An upstart driller in Mexico aims to provide 10% of the country’s natural gas needs as it develops prospects south of Texas’s border.
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March 18, 2021
A new company soon to be created by Chrysaor Holdings Ltd and Premier Oil Plc will likely retain its stake in the giant Zama oil development in Mexico, reversing an earlier decision by the indebted North Sea driller to exit the project.
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March 15, 2021
Figures from China for the first two months of the year showed a surge in industrial output, underscoring the strength of its V-shaped rebound and reinforcing expectations for increased energy demand.
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March 15, 2021
Pemex is under pressure to prove that the company is increasing production under the government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who swept into power in late 2018, promising to revive it by rolling back the liberalizing energy reforms of his predecessor.
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February 18, 2021
Lowering Mexico's tax demands on Pemex, its biggest taxpayer, could help the oil giant reorder its finances as it struggles with a $110.3 billion debt load, sinking production, and some of the highest tax obligations of any oil company in the world.
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January 08, 2021
After a landslide victory in 2018, Mexico's president has cut the knees off a booming renewables market, plowed money into Pemex, and pursued two major infrastructure projects that environmentalists consider ecological disasters.
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December 03, 2020
The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative's biggest project to date has been to set targets for the reduction of carbon dioxide and methane emissions from its member companies.
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October 22, 2020
Oil sands producers will benefit from less output of competing crude from Latin America as Pemex expects to cut exports while Venezuelan supplies remain off limits due to U.S. sanctions.
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October 09, 2020
Petroleos Mexicanos returned to capital markets Thursday for its first debt sale since January as the embattled oil producer seeks to tap improved demand from investors.
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October 08, 2020
Every year, the Latin American nation locks in the price of its oil exports by buying put options from Wall Street banks. The deal typically roils the market, creating violent swings in the price of oil options.
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September 18, 2020
AMLO swept into power in December 2018 promising to rescue Pemex by dialing back his predecessor’s 2013-2014 energy reforms, which had ended the company’s nearly eight decades-long monopoly. He has also pledged to ramp up domestic fuel production to reduce dependence on gasoline imports, which account for about 65% of what Pemex sells in Mexico.
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September 04, 2020
The Mexican government is finalizing the budget proposal for next year, to be handed to congress by Tuesday, trying to square plunging oil income, growing social spending demands and Lopez Obrador’s push for austerity.
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January 08, 2020
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said officials would announce a plan by mid-February that would make clear how private companies could participate in the nation’s energy sector.
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January 03, 2020
Mexico’s government hedged oil exports for this year at an average $49 a barrel, locking in protection against low crude prices, the nation’s Finance Ministry said.
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January 02, 2020
A drive to drill new wells at 20 “priority” fields in Mexico largely using smaller, local service providers is faltering, with Pemex expected to re-bid some of the work in the year ahead.
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December 10, 2019
API joined more than 200 companies and associations covering a wide range of industries in the USMCA Coalition, which has been working to secure the agreement’s approval in Congress.
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December 10, 2019
Even as Mexico’s president and Pemex’s CEO touted the country’s most important find in three decades, it appears to be far from a panacea for the beleaguered state driller.
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November 26, 2019
Companies that help keep Mexico’s faltering oil wells operating are waiting months to get paid and the debts are building up, complicating efforts to revive an industry whose production has plunged by half since 2004.
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November 18, 2019
The government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is changing rules for clean-energy credits, allowing aging hydroelectric dams operated by Mexico’s state-owned utility to qualify. The move, critics say, dilutes the value of credits initially intended for new wind and solar farms.
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November 12, 2019
Repsol SA is looking as far away as Western Canada for oil for its European refineries amid dwindling supplies from Mexico and Venezuela.
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November 04, 2019
Paradigm Drilling Services has recently expanded their teams in the Middle East and Mexico to service increasing drilling equipment demand.
