Mexico

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December 02, 2021
Petroleos Mexicanos is replacing its finance chief as President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador tightens his grip on the struggling state oil giant.
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October 28, 2021
Petroleos Mexicanos reported a small increase in third-quarter production after adding new wells, which more than offset the impact of two accidents at its offshore operations.
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October 28, 2021
Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the great champion of his beloved but beleaguered state-owned oil giant, may be making his boldest move yet to keep it afloat.
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September 09, 2021
Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is raising Pemex’s spending plan for next year to about $32 billion in a bid to boost flagging oil production.
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September 09, 2021
Mexico cut its forecast for oil production at Pemex next year and reduced its tax burden after a string of accidents at offshore platforms signaled the highly indebted state company is struggling.
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September 03, 2021
Talos Energy Inc., the U.S. offshore explorer behind Mexico’s largest oil discovery in years, is taking the first step toward an international dispute after control of the field was given to state producer Pemex.
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September 02, 2021
As the government pushes for a constitutional reform to electricity laws, Finance Minister Ramirez de la O said now “would be a little late” to change overall energy laws that last decade gave private companies access to the Mexican market.
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August 31, 2021
The Texas oil refinery that Pemex is buying has racked up a rare net loss of about $360 million this year, adding to the challenges Mexico faces in seeking energy independence.
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August 24, 2021
Pemex left investors with more questions than answers after it announced in late July that it would be disclosing its greenhouse gas emissions on a more regular basis — then refused to discuss why they’d soared by double-digits from April to June, compared to a year ago.
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August 20, 2021
Vitol Group and Trafigura Group -- both barred from new oil-trading business with Mexico’s state producer for alleged corruption -- will be subject to the ban until at least the end of 2024 while the government reviews the conduct of other commodity traders, Energy Minister Rocio Nahle said.
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August 13, 2021
Pemex fought tooth and nail to wrest control of the country’s biggest private oil find from the companies that discovered it. Now it has found itself without the cash to actually develop the field.
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August 03, 2021
Petroleos Mexicanos is measuring crude production at a warmer temperature than government regulators, inadvertently inflating the oil giant’s output figures, according to people familiar with the practice.
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July 05, 2021
The resolution ends a long-standing conflict between Pemex and Houston-based Talos over the field, which contains as many as one billion barrels of oil equivalent.
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April 15, 2021
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has sought to clamp down on private competition to state-owned companies, saying in October he intends to protect the interests of state oil producer Pemex and electricity firm Comision Federal de Electricidad. At the time, he accused foreign companies of ransacking the country.
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March 26, 2021
AMLO has turned the Texas freeze crisis into a rallying cry for more energy independence, weaponizing it to advance a nationalist agenda that has implications beyond natural gas imports and threatens tens of billions of dollars of investments in renewable energy by U.S., Canadian and European energy companies.
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March 25, 2021
Noble Corporation and Pacific Drilling Company have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Noble will acquire Pacific Drilling in an all-stock transaction.
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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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