Mexico

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September 12, 2019
Talos Energy has received a two-year contract term extension as well as regulatory approvals for additional exploration activities on Block 7, located in the offshore portion of Mexico's prolific Sureste basin. Talos is the operator of Block 7 in a consortium with its partners Sierra Oil & Gas and Premier Oil.
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September 09, 2019
Mexico’s balanced budget for next year depends in part on its oil company boosting production by about 17%, something that the country hasn’t achieved in almost four decades.
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March 07, 2018
Mexico’s leftist front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador intends to seek a public consultation on the nation’s landmark energy reform, raising the possibility that the opening of the oil industry could be overturned, according to his Veracruz gubernatorial candidate.
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February 27, 2018
Industry observers have serious doubts about the Mexican presidential front-runner’s plan to build new refineries that could cost $6 billion to $10 billion.
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February 27, 2018
Private and state-owned companies, from producers to pipeline operators, and a solid governmental regulatory apparatus must now help guarantee the consistent supply of natural gas, said Adrian Duhalt, postdoctoral fellow in Mexico energy studies in the institute’s Mexico Center and Center for Energy Studies.
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February 18, 2018
Mexico officially became the International Energy Agency's 30th member country on Feb. 17, 2018, and its first member in Latin America.
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February 15, 2018
Noble Energy, Inc., has announced that its board of directors has authorized a $750-million share repurchase program. In addition, the Company has executed an agreement to sell its deepwater Gulf of Mexico assets to Fieldwood Energy LLC for a total value of $710 million.
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February 02, 2018
With its money-losing refineries producing the least fuel in 27 years and only a handful of private partnerships announced since Mexico’s energy reforms, sealing a $2.6 billion venture with Mitsui & Co. will come as a relief to Petroleos Mexicanos.
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February 01, 2018
Eni and its partner Qatar Petroleum have been awarded rights to Block 24 located in the deep waters of the Cuenca Salina basin in Mexico.
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February 01, 2018
In the deepwater bid round for the Mexican Gulf of Mexico, Shell Exploración y Extracción de México, S.A. de C.V., (Shell) won four exploration blocks on its own, one with its partner Pemex Exploración y Producción and four with its partner Qatar Petroleum International Limited.
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January 26, 2018
If you’re a super-major oil explorer, Mexico says it’s got a bargain for you.
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January 25, 2018
Mexico is trying to lure as much oil investment as possible before the president who overhauled the country’s energy industry leaves.
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May 04, 2017
M² Subsea has joined forces with Frontera Offshore to deliver remedial pipeline work for Permaducto, a subsidiary of Grupo Protexa, in the Ku-Maloob-Zaap (KMZ) oilfield in the Bay of Campeche, 65 mi north east of Cuidad del Carmen, Mexico. This contract also marks the first award for M² Subsea in the Gulf of Mexico region.
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May 02, 2017
Mexico’s historic opening of its oil and gas sector to private investment, which began three years ago, continues on pace, and only a few phased moves remain to be completed, said a top governmental official.
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April 21, 2017
Shipments of crude to the U.S. from Mexico fell to a new low last week, extending a trend that goes back to when the Energy Information Administration began compiling preliminary weekly import data in June 2010.
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April 04, 2017
Canadian crude shipments to the U.S. are poised to shrink just as the effects of OPEC-led output cuts are being felt in the Caribbean.
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April 02, 2017
Mexico’s existing oil reserves are dwindling so fast the country could go dry within nine years without new discoveries.
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March 29, 2017
Senior figures from Mexico’s national oil company, Pemex, have been discovering the secrets of the UK subsea sector’s success and how it has revolutionized the way in which hydrocarbons have been extracted from beneath the seabed during a fact-finding visit to Aberdeen.
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March 29, 2017
The newest oil refineries in Texas are looking to join the hottest two plays in the North American oil industry.
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March 28, 2017
When an angry mob torched City Hall in the southern Mexican town of Tecpatan last month, it sent a warning flare across a country already thrown into turmoil by Donald Trump.
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