Eckhard Hinrichsen analyses the race for oil and gas reserves as the market liberalizes. The Mexican energy industry is at last open to foreign companies. Investment opportunities abound as the important first licensing rounds loom. The…
As Mexico’s energy industry slowly opens up to outside investment, the country’s industry is assured to look very different in the future from today. GlobalData’s Adrian Lara and Will Scargill examine the details. Pemex has had a monopoly…
David Shields provides a glance at Mexico’s energy reform and Round One. Pemex’s Ku-S platform at the Ku Maloob Zaap oil field in the Bay of Campeche. Image from Return To Scene. Round One…
New analysis by Wood Mackenzie looks at Mexico's Round One shallow water opportunities, a licensing round that includes nine shallow-water fields with a total of 356 MMboe of 2P reserves. These fields, which have not yet been put into production…
Scotland’s Paradigm Drilling Services is establishing its presence in Mexico by investing an initial US$5 million into the country and creating a Mexican subsidiary, Paradigm Drilling Services Mexico. Innes…
Mexican state oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) is being forced to decrease its budget by US$4 billion, representing an 11.5% decrease from last year, in order to maintain financial balance due to falling oil prices. Image of Lozoya…
With Mexican oil open to private investment for the first time, the country’s initial bidding round is expected to remain competitive despite low oil prices, delays and a number of uncertainties, according to research and consulting firm GlobalData…
Mexico has opened bidding for oil exploration rights in 14 areas of the Gulf of Mexico to domestic and international companies after upstream oil regulator, Comision Nacional de Hidrobarburos (CNH), this week approved rules for the first part of Bid Round 1…
Toronto-based Pacific Rubiales Energy and Mexico’s Alfa S.A.B. de C.V (ALFA) entered into an agreement to create a 50:50 joint venture for the development of business in Mexico. Pantin. From Pacific Rubiales…
While the specific terms of Mexico’s new contractual frameworks for its oil and gas industry are yet to be announced, the regime appears an attractive one and should be conducive to active bidding, according to an analyst with research and consulting firm GlobalData…
The results of Mexico’s upcoming bidding round for 109 exploration blocks and 60 producing fields could be crucial in determining the country’s future position as an oil and gas powerhouse, according to an analyst with research and consulting firm GlobalData…
Mexico's Pemex has started a corporate restructure to become a more 'flexible and efficient,' it announced today. The announcement comes after Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto approved the country's historic energy reform earlier this month…
Mexico’s Ministry of Energy (SENER) granted Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) almost all of the acreage detailed in its Round Zero wish list, including rights to all requested domestic proven and probable reserves (2P). The government fast…
Mexico’s oil and gas industry entered a new era on Monday when President Enrique Pena Nieto signed the long-awaited secondary legislation of the country’s recent energy reform into law, opening the country to private investment. The signing…
Mexico's latest licensing round only the second in state oil company Pemex's long history, made possible by recent exploration & production contract reforms failed to draw a successful bid for the offshore blocks on offer. Russell McCulley talks to Juan Carlos Zepeda Molina…
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