(Market Note 233, Houston, 01/23/2019) — This report provides a preview of the panel on Mexico that will be held at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC). The 3-hour panel is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, May 7, 2019. The first segment will provide oil companies with leases in Mexico the opportunity...
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Assessing Energy Regulators in Mexico: An update from OECD
(MEI 886 — HOUSTON, 01/11/2019)In mid-December 2018, a performance review was issued by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) of three energy regulators in Mexico: National Hydrocarbon Commission (CNH), Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) and Hydrocarbon Safety Agency (ASEA).Researchers reviewed the efforts of the three regulators to devise protocols...
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A New Security and Development Model: Use of Mobile Internet
(Public Policy Perspective 10056, Houston, 01/04/2019) — This report examines how the mobile internet, coupled with new surveillance technologies, could be employed both to fight Pemex gasoline theft as well as to raise expectations of residents by a program that offers high-speed internet and government-issued smartphones. Unlike the security initiative...
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Regulatory predictability in Mexico: the unsettling precedent of Juan Carlos Zepeda
(MEI Report 883 — Houston, Dec. 17, 2018) This report provides an overview of accomplishments and setbacks that Mexico’s upstream regulator (CNH) experienced under Mr. Zepeda’s leadership. We consider the elements in play that could have led to a decision to continue in office until the end of his statutory...
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George Baker at inauguration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on December 1
(First Photo) George Baker at the Congressional Palace as an invited guest for the inauguration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on December 1. (Second Photo) Presidents, Prime Ministers, and the King of Spain were seated at the head table during luncheon in National Palace after the inuguration....
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A New Security Model for Mexico: Make Love, Not War
(Houston, Nov. 28, 2018, Market Note 232) This report provides highlights of the diagnosis of the causes of the precarious security situation in Mexico and of the incoming government’s program to restore the rule of law in Mexico. The 8-point plan reimagines the war on drugs as a challenge of...
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Unitization as policy, stratagem or happenstance? Area 7 in Bid Round 1.1 Revisited
(Houston, Nov. 3, 2018, MEI 882) In this report, we ask about how did it happen that the boundary of Area 7 of CNH Bid Round 1.1 left a significant portion of a reservoir on Pemex’s side, triggering negotiations for unitization. The giant reservoir that was discovered by Talos Energy...
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