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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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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Transparency Gap In The CNH
(HOUSTON, May 27, 2020, Market Note 248) — IN DECEMBER OF 2018, the CIDE noted an asymetry in CNH reporting. READ PAGES ON MOBILE DEVICE For this report in pdf, contact us: info@energia.com or call (832) 434-3928....
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A Rule of Law in Mexico’s Energy Sector
(HOUSTON, June 17, 2020, MEI 911) — IN MANY STREETS AROUND THE WORLD today the rule of law is questioned and defied as populations grapple with the coronavirus-19, the associated economic contraction, and the turn in governments toward authoritarian strategies for managing the economy and civil dissent. Mexico is not...
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Mexico’s Energy Reform at Year Six
(Houston, February 25, 2020, MEI 907) — Everyone, it seems, is frustrated by the results to date of Mexico’s Energy Reform of 2013-14. The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador deplores the low level of investment and production from the upstream leases. Pemex E&P is going through a leadership...
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