Mexico’s efforts to attract foreign private investment to its oil and gas industry for the first time in over seven decades only resulted in two companies registering successful bids for the 14 blocks that were on offer in the Round One leasing auction on July 15. According to the Secretaría de Energía de México (SENER),… Keep reading →
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Mexico’s Close-to-Shore Oil Auction Falls Short Of Expectations
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By Jared AndersonFifteen governors penned a letter sent to the White House yesterday claiming the EPA’s proposed rule to regulate emissions from existing power plants is illegal. Several of these governors also climate change deniers. “Five of the states represented by those governors — Alabama, Indiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Wyoming — are also part of a lawsuit filed… Keep reading →
Pemex Restructuring Could Signal New Competitior for OPEC Despite Long-Term Issues
By Conor O'SullivanThe impending restructuring of Mexico’s national oil company – Pemex – from a state-owned monopoly to a public-private entity will have a profound effect on the energy security and economy of Mexico. It may also have far reaching implications for its North American neighbors, the United States and Canada, who are both experiencing what has… Keep reading →
Energy News Roundup: Big Money in Colorado Fracking Battle, Ukraine Pipeline Damage to Impact European Supply & Chevron in Mexico
By Jared AndersonThe battle over fracking in Colorado is heating up with major funding flowing into both sides of the debate. Several ballot initiatives regarding the oil and gas well completion technology will be voted on this November. Celebrities like Yoko Ono and wealthy activists including Tom Steyer are supporting anti-fracking legislation, or in many cases, laws… Keep reading →
Energy News Roundup: Chinese Firms Enter Canadian LNG Project, Pemex Tax Relief and Wellinghoff Board Seat
By Jared AndersonMalaysian state company Petronas has agreed to sell a 15% stake in its proposed Pacific NorthWest LNG export facility to be sited in British Columbia, and a 15% stake in the upstream shale assets designated to feed the plant to Chinese state-controlled Sinopec. Taking a page from Japan’s LNG supply playbook, which has companies secure… Keep reading →
Energy News Roundup: Mexican Energy Reforms Take Shape and US Natural Gas Market Convulses
By Jared AndersonThe secondary laws needed to enact Mexico’s historic constitutional changes that break state oil company Pemex’ 75-year monopoly on oil & gas development will reportedly be released mid-March. Additional laws covering royalties and taxes, however, will not be finalized until September. [Reuters] The Nymex natural gas futures contract for March delivery closed at $6.149 per… Keep reading →
Mexico’s Energy Reforms: Can Mexico Emerge as a Prime Global Oil & Gas Industry Expansion Prospect?
By Roman KilisekMexico’s legislature recently passed historic energy reforms designed to attract desperately-needed foreign direct investment to the inefficient nationalized energy sector for the first time since 1938. This was when then-President Lázaro Cárdenas seized fields from U.S. and British companies and made oil at all stages of production, refining and distribution constitutionally guaranteed legal property of… Keep reading →
Mexican lawmakers have passed an energy reform bill that will open up the country’s oil and gas resources to foreign investment, ending a 75-year monopoly by state-controlled Pemex. According to the Wall Street Journal, the voting process involved both fistfights and accusations of treason. [Wall Street Journal] Plans for the 99-story Pertamina Energy Tower, to… Keep reading →
By: Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of IHS The great controversy playing out over oil reform this month in Mexico will be central to Mexico’s economic future. Can declining oil production be turned around in order to support an expanding industrial economy rivaling the BRICs and become a global manufacturing hub? This oil reform is so… Keep reading →
This week’s biggest deal happened in Washington, DC, where the House and Senate finally reached an agreement to reopen the US government and raise the debt ceiling. But there were also several energy-specific transactions and pending transactions that merited notice: Mexico’s state-controlled oil and gas company Pemex has voided a tender for the second phase… Keep reading →