Houston, July 28, 2018 (MEI 10053) This report began as a search in the Mexican constitution for anything that would prevent the development of a secondary market in upstream leases, that is, new investors who would bring additional capital, talent and jobs to portions of existing CNH leases. For this,...
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MEXICO’S 2018 ELECTIONS: Voter Rebellion or Electoral Syzygy?
Houston,July 9, 2018 (MEI 876) This report seeks to understand the electoral victory of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his MORENA party in the general elections held on July 1, 2018. The party wins dominant positions in Congress, putting within reach of rolling back the energy reform that was written...
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OTC 2018 Mexico’s Minimalist Presence
MEI Market Note 227 Houston, May 14, 2018 This report is the second on the 2018 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC). No MX government speakers attended. Their absence would mean that oil reform would be ignored in the OTC program. IMP’s Ernesto Ríos spoke, as did Pemex’s Ulises Hernández, each about...
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Ultramar Oil & Gas, S.A. de C.V. (aka Pemex 2.0)
Mexico’s 2nd National Oil Company for Frontier Plays HOUSTON, MAY 3-4, 2018 — Download George Baker’s slides from a May 4th panel on the “Privatization of Pemex.” G Baker – Ultramar Oil & Gas, S.A. de C.V. presentation....
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An interview with Juan Carlos Zepeda
What should CNH tell the next Government? Interview with Juan Carlos Zepeda Mexico Energy Intelligence (MEI) No. 867 – An interview held with President-Commissioner Juan Carlos Zepeda on February 6, 2017. The topics cover items flagged in our earlier report that was issued on January 10 in which we imagined...
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Oil Agenda for Mexico for 2040
Oil Agenda for Mexico for 2040 Vision of AMEXHI, an Upstream Trade Association Our new report provides an analysis and critique of the 174-page document prepared by AMEXHI, the association of oil companies in Mexico. Making use of the forecasts of the International Energy Agency in Paris, the document evaluates...
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Outlook for the Energy Reform
Outlook for the Energy Reform MEI 868 (FEBRUARY 19) — Rice University’s Baker Institute hosted a panel discussion on the outlook of Mexico’s energy reform under the scenario in which a party of the Left, led by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, wins the presidency in the general elections that are...
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