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.
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August 24, 2018
Mexico’s economy stalled in the second quarter amid a drop in oil and industrial output and a slowdown in services activity.
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August 23, 2018
Petroleos Mexicanos will be free to choose its own partners if Mexico’s next government has its way.
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August 22, 2018
As Mexico pushes to wrap up a Nafta deal with the U.S., negotiators are facing a new challenge.
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August 01, 2018
McDermott International, Inc. has announced a sizeable contract award by Pemex Exploración y Producción for subsea pipeline flowline installation in support of Ayatsil field, located 50 mi northwest of Ciudad del Carmen, in the Bay of Campeche, offshore Mexico.
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August 01, 2018
Petrofac Limited has announced that it has signed an agreement to sell 49% of the Company’s operations in Mexico, including Santuario, Magallanes and Arenque, to Perenco (Oil & Gas) International Limited.
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August 01, 2018
Eni announces that Mexico’s National Hydrocarbon Commission (Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos, CNH) has approved the development plan for the discoveries of Amoca, Miztón and Tecoalli, located in Area 1 (Eni 100%), in the shallow waters of the Campeche Bay.
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July 30, 2018
Mexico’s incoming president named a new chief executive officer for Pemex and promised government investment of 75 billion pesos ($4 billion) in the oil sector, in a bid to revive the state-owned oil company.
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July 03, 2018
The election of Mexico’s first left-wing president in recent decades is expected to slow the country’s march toward the creation of a private oil market, though not derail it.
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June 27, 2018
Petroleos Mexicanos is accelerating efforts to bring on partners before an election that could slow foreign investment in Mexico’s oil industry.
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March 07, 2018
Mexico’s leftist front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador intends to seek a public consultation on the nation’s landmark energy reform, raising the possibility that the opening of the oil industry could be overturned, according to his Veracruz gubernatorial candidate.
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February 27, 2018
Industry observers have serious doubts about the Mexican presidential front-runner’s plan to build new refineries that could cost $6 billion to $10 billion.
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February 27, 2018
Private and state-owned companies, from producers to pipeline operators, and a solid governmental regulatory apparatus must now help guarantee the consistent supply of natural gas, said Adrian Duhalt, postdoctoral fellow in Mexico energy studies in the institute’s Mexico Center and Center for Energy Studies.
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February 18, 2018
Mexico officially became the International Energy Agency's 30th member country on Feb. 17, 2018, and its first member in Latin America.
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February 15, 2018
Noble Energy, Inc., has announced that its board of directors has authorized a $750-million share repurchase program. In addition, the Company has executed an agreement to sell its deepwater Gulf of Mexico assets to Fieldwood Energy LLC for a total value of $710 million.
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February 02, 2018
With its money-losing refineries producing the least fuel in 27 years and only a handful of private partnerships announced since Mexico’s energy reforms, sealing a $2.6 billion venture with Mitsui & Co. will come as a relief to Petroleos Mexicanos.
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February 01, 2018
Eni and its partner Qatar Petroleum have been awarded rights to Block 24 located in the deep waters of the Cuenca Salina basin in Mexico.
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February 01, 2018
In the deepwater bid round for the Mexican Gulf of Mexico, Shell Exploración y Extracción de México, S.A. de C.V., (Shell) won four exploration blocks on its own, one with its partner Pemex Exploración y Producción and four with its partner Qatar Petroleum International Limited.
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January 26, 2018
If you’re a super-major oil explorer, Mexico says it’s got a bargain for you.
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January 25, 2018
Mexico is trying to lure as much oil investment as possible before the president who overhauled the country’s energy industry leaves.
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