Mexico
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February 26, 2019
The American Petroleum Institute announced that it has joined the newly launched USMCA Coalition, backed by over 200 companies and associations across a wide variety of industries, to urge Congress to approve the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
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February 13, 2019
Rowan Companies plc has announced that the Rowan Renaissance, an R-Class ultra-deepwater drillship, has been awarded a one-well contract in Mexico by PC Carigali Mexico Operations, S.A. de C.V. for an estimated duration of 80 days that is expected to commence in the second quarter of 2019.
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January 24, 2019
Talos Energy Inc. has provided an update on the Zama appraisal in Block 7 offshore Mexico. Talos is the operator of Block 7 in a consortium (the Consortium) with its partners Sierra Oil and Gas S. de R.L. de C.V. and Premier Oil Plc.
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January 22, 2019
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador asked his cabinet to skip this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos to focus on the government’s efforts to stop gasoline theft and attend to a pipeline explosion, according to the nation’s highest-ranking attendee.
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January 21, 2019
BP reports highlights of its second-half 2018 upstream operations review.
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January 21, 2019
Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is doubling down on a controversial strategy to end fuel theft at Petroleos Mexicanos after a pipeline explosion caused by an illegal tap left at least 89 people dead and many injured.
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December 17, 2018
Qatar Petroleum entered into an agreement with Eni to acquire a 35% participating interest in three offshore oil Fields in Mexico.
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December 16, 2018
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is boosting Petroleos Mexicanos’ budget to $23 billion (464.6 billion pesos) next year to reverse flagging oil production and increase domestic fuel output.
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December 16, 2018
Qatar Petroleum is buying stakes in three offshore oil blocks in Mexico from Eni SpA, as the Arab country signs another global expansion deal after leaving OPEC.
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December 06, 2018
Sparrows Group has signed a five-year blanket order with Pemex Procurement International, Inc. acting on behalf of Pemex Exploracion y Produccion (PEP) to service 41 of its cranes situated on assets in four of the Mexican national oil company’s developments in the region.
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December 04, 2018
Talos Energy Inc. has announced that the Zama-2 appraisal well was spud in late November 2018. The spudding of the Zama-2 well marks the commencement of the Zama discovery appraisal program, which will consist of three reservoir penetrations, including two wells and one sidetrack.
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November 28, 2018
Pemex has more than tripled its estimated reserves in its Ixachi field.
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October 31, 2018
Colombia is planning to hedge its oil exports to protect the government from the violent swings in revenue it suffered in recent years.
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October 05, 2018
The North-east of Scotland is set for an international boost, as its universities have been named as two of only four European institutions to be chosen by the Mexican Government to work in collaboration with Mexican universities to address the future needs of the country’s energy sector.
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September 28, 2018
Talos Energy Inc. has announced the Mexican oil & gas regulator, the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) has approved the appraisal plan for the Zama discovery.
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September 28, 2018
Mexico’s oil auction winners BHP Billiton Ltd and DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG are hopeful that the slowdown in bid rounds is a feature of the country’s political transition and won’t be permanent.
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September 21, 2018
Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and Talos Energy, as operator of the Block 7 Consortium, have announced that Pemex and the international Block 7 Consortium (Talos Energy, Sierra Oil and Gas, and Premier Oil) have signed a pre-unitization agreement (PUA) related to certain tracts within the Amoca-Yaxche-03 allocation and the contiguous Block 7 production sharing contract.
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September 10, 2018
Mexico’s next president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will allocate 75 billion pesos ($3.9 billion) in the budget next year to oil extraction in a bid to resuscitate flagging output.
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September 07, 2018
Mexico’s next president said he will continue with oil auctions in the first signs that he is backtracking on plans to scale back the country’s historic 2014 energy reforms.
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September 03, 2018
Ikon Science, the leader in geoprediction technology, has donated 12 of its RokDoc geoscience software licenses to the ITPE - Instituto Tecnológico del Petróleo y Energía in Merida, Mexico.
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August 28, 2018
Mexico President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will name Fluvio Ruiz Alarcon as Petroleos Mexicanos’s next exploration and production chief, according to two people with knowledge of the plans.
