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What changes are needed for a meaningful reform in public oversight and corporate governance?

Posted in: Corporate governance, Featured | Jun 19, 2013 2:30 am, by George Baker

On May 18, 2013, “Mexico Grows at Slowest Pace in Three Years” was the title of a story in the Wall Street Journal. The Pact for Mexico “has already led to passage of sweeping education and telecommunications overhauls, increasing hopes that an oil-sector reform planned for the second half of the...

What changes are needed for a meaningful reform in Midstream Gas?

Posted in: Energy reform Pemex, Featured, Pemex Gas | Jun 19, 2013 2:13 am, by George Baker

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It has been remarked that in recent years there have been two failed openings in the energy sector: gas and power. Building on policy guidelines developed by his predecessor, the government of Ernesto Zedillo (1994‐2000) launched a major reform in the natural gas sector: the Natural Gas Act of 1995...

What changes are needed for a meaningful upstream reform?

Posted in: Featured, Mexico energy reform | Jun 19, 2013 1:25 am, by George Baker

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In a business meeting in Mexico City on April 22, an unexpected revision of Mexico’s energy policy since 1958 was put forward for discussion: Mexico since 1958 has been following an import‐substitution strategy. It was observed that in order to build an oil industry three elements are needed: 1) Talent...

Download MEI report title pages from OTC 2013 interviews

Posted in: BSEE, Featured, Market Note 169, Offshore Technology Conference, OTC 2013 reporting, Profile of Mexico and Pemex | Jun 6, 2013 5:22 am, by George Baker

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In 2013, the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), the global oil industry event that is held annually in Houston in May, attracted over 100,000 attendees. There were some 2,700 exhibitors who occupied space equivalent to eleven American football fields. There were delegates from 40 countries. Outside the exhibition floor there were...

Conversation with Colin Stabler

Posted in: Featured, Mexican energy, Mexico energy reform, Pemex | May 31, 2013 4:00 pm, by George Baker

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Mexico poised for constitutional reform on upstream O&G HOUSTON, May 31, 2013 MEI: Colin, you have been involved in Mexico for 45 years, first as a young petroleum geologist doing technical work, then more recently as E&P manager in Mexico for a major oil company before you retired. So tell...

Energia’s George Baker comments on Wall Street Journal article

Posted in: Featured, Maquiladora exporters | May 30, 2013 4:10 am, by George Baker

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GEORGE BAKER: HOUSTON — Juxtaposing exports of commodities and manufactured goods from assembly plants of the kind found in Mexico (and called maquiladoras) can be misleading, as their revenue and tax implications are different. Commodity exporters pay taxes on their gross margins (or so one would hope), while maquiladora exporters...

The Zen of Spanish Proficiency

Posted in: Chinese language, English language, Featured, German language, Japanese language, Phonotactical rules, Spanish language, Spanish proficiency | May 30, 2013 4:07 am, by George Baker

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BUDDHISM IS A RELIGION built around the idea of religious freedom. The freedom that the Buddhist seeks is not of the kind that drove American pilgrims of the 17th century, which was freedom from persecution by the State. The Buddha taught that there is another, unsuspected freedom, which may be...

Panelists reflect on outlook of Mexican oil at Global Energy Conference

Posted in: Energy reform, Featured, Global Energy Conference, Mayer Brown law firm, Mexico Energy Intelligence, Pablo Ferrante, Woodrow Wilson Center | May 19, 2013 11:27 pm, by George Baker

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A panel on the outlook for Mexican oil was held in Houston on May 15, 2013, as an element of the 8th Global Energy Conference sponsored by MAYER • BROWN law firm. There were two speakers on the panel, which was moderated by Mayer Brown’s Pablo Ferrante: Duncan Wood, director...

Different safety cultures for drilling vs. production?

Posted in: Center for Offshore Safety, Drilling ahead blog, Featured, Offshore drilling safety, Offshore production safety, OTC 2013 and Ian Sutton | May 19, 2013 10:26 pm, by George Baker

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On May 13, 2013, I had a long chat in the Galleria-area office of Charlie Williams, the executive director of the Center for Offshore Safety (whose earlier career had been with Shell). One of the topics that we discussed was whether or not the case could be made that there...

News commentary: OTC 2013 — Day 1

Posted in: BP, Cameron, Inc., Carlos Morales, Chevron African & Latin America, Deepwater Horizon, Director General Emilio Lozoya, Energy reform, ExxonMobil, Featured, Felipe Luna, George Mitchell, Luis Carriles, Macondo incident, Pemex, Petróleos Mexicanos, PGPB, Repsol, Texas Governor Rick Perry | May 7, 2013 6:38 pm, by George Baker

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HOUSTON, May 7, 2013—Every year, in the first week of May, Houston becomes the Party Town of the global oil and gas industry. For the 80,000 people who attend the event, as delegates, speakers and exhibitors, there are invitations to breakfasts, receptions and special events throughout the week. Offshore Technology...

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