Reinventing the Office of the President of Mexico (MEI 897, Houston, May 29, 2019) This report addresses two broad questions: During the first six months of the López Obrador administration, how has the national interest been served? In parallel, is the Mexico risk premium overpriced or underpriced in the energy...
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MEXICO’S MIDSTREAM PANEL AT OTC 2019
(MEI 895, HOUSTON, 05/15/2019) — This report provides highlights of panelist presentations at the Mexico country session of the 2019 Offshore Technology Conference. The session was structured in two segments: Operators and Service companies plus the midstream regulator. In the first segment, speakers from Pemex, BP, Murphy Oil and Fieldwood...
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MEI Report 939 – Energy and the Public Interest
(Houston, June 29, 2021) — In this report, we ask about the public interest in Zama reservoir and the Deer Park Refinery. Click here to download MEI REPORT 939 (selected pages). ***WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUY THIS REPORT AND RECEIVE 50 PERCENT OFF***...
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AMLO’s proposed buyout at the Deer Park Refinery
(Houston, June 4, 2021) Public Policy Perspective Report 10080 –– A strategic unforced error that puts Pemex and Houston at risk. More on this story and podcast with George Baker, Houston-based analyst. Click here....
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Shell announced it would sell its stake in the refinery… Listen to podcast
(Houston, June 7, 2021) –– Shell announced that it would be selling its stake in the refinery . . . But the move may turn out to be a costly one for Pemex, and @lopezobrador_ George Baker is a Houston-based analyst on Mexico’s energy industry, talks to the Texas Standard....
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Mexico Ruling on Zama Unitization Crucial Decision 2021
(Houston, January 20, 2021) — Our interview with Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI), issued December 18, 2020, focused on the outlook for 2021 in the energy sector (link below). In the same spirit of wanting to look ahead to discern the shape of energy policy in Mexico in the coming years,...
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Overcoming the American Accent in Spanish
(Houston, Jan. 19, 2021) — The Barrier to Listening to Spanish: This revised report was first issued on December 26, 2012, during the first month of the administration of Enrique Peña Nieto when it was foreseen that with an energy reform there would be a new interest in gaining bilingual...
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Ronald (Ron) E. Sweatman passes at 72
Hall of Fame Inventor of 44 patents, author and Oil and Gas Executive, Ronald Sweatman, passes at age 72. Read and share Ronald Sweatman’s obituary....
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API raises yellow card
(HOUSTON, June 22, 2020, MEI Market Note 103) — THREE WEEKS IN ADVANCE of the date when the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is scheduled to come into force, a major oil industry voice in Washington, D.C., notified senior officials of the Trump Administration of concerns about the regulatory mistreatment of...
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