(Investing) – LONDON -Oil prices were steady on Friday but on course for weekly declines as markets waited to see if U.S. President Donald Trump will follow through on his threat to impose tariffs on Mexico and Canada on Saturday. Brent crude futures for March, which expire on Friday, were down 9 cents at $76.78 a barrel by 1420 GMT. U.S. West
(BOE Report) – Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said that her government will send Congress on Wednesday a bill intended to reform the country’s energy sectors and establish mechanisms for public-private partnerships across the power and oil and gas industries. “This is a very deep reform,” Sheinbaum said in a morning conference, saying it aimed to simplify the structures of state
(Investing) – SINGAPORE/LONDON -Oil producers in Canada and Mexico will likely be forced to reduce prices and divert supply to Asia if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump imposes 25% import tariffs on crude imports from the two countries, traders and analysts said. Two sources familiar with Trump’s plan told Reuters that oil would not be exempted from potential tariff hikes on imports
(World Oil) – National oil companies tend to be more bloated and less efficient than their private-sector counterparts. Yet Petroleos Mexicanos, with a workforce of about 128,000, stands out even among its state-owned peers. The amount of crude Pemex pumps per employee has slipped to just under 14 bpd, less than any other Latin American state producer except Petroleos de
