Reuters MEXICO CITY – At least one person died and five more are missing due to a fire that erupted on an offshore platform run by Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) in the southern Gulf of Mexico, the Mexican state oil and gas company said on Monday. Three Pemex workers were injured and another was in a state of nervous shock, the
Nasdaq MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) on Wednesday reported net profit of 14.4 billion pesos ($722.5 million) in the second quarter, reversing course after a loss in the same period last year thanks to higher prices and crude production. Pemex’s financial debt swelled slightly from the first quarter of the year, reaching $115.1 billion at
Fox Business HOUSTON/MEXICO CITY – Royal Dutch Shell agreed on Monday to sell its controlling interest in a Texas refinery to partner Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) for about $596 million, the latest move by the European oil major to cut its global refining footprint. The deal makes the Deer Park, Texas, facility the first foreign refinery that Mexico’s state-run oil company
Bloomberg Mexico’s bill to increase government controls over the fuel market won final congressional approval in the latest blow to the country’s historic opening up of the energy industry. With 65 lawmakers in favor, 47 opposed, and 6 abstaining, the senate on Thursday passed the proposal from President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to expand control over gasoline and diesel distribution, imports and
Reuters MEXICO CITY- The United States has raised concerns with Mexico about a worsening climate for U.S. energy investors in the Latin American nation, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) said. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, bidding to reverse previous reforms that enticed foreign investors, has sought to strengthen the state’s role in the energy sector,
Reuters Editor’s Note: Talos Energy (NYSE: TALO) will be presenting at The EnerCom Dallas Energy Investment & ESG Conference April 6-7, 2021. EnerCom Dallas is a financial conference that provides institutional investors an early 2021 opportunity to meet CEOs from leading independent E&Ps, including some of the industry’s leading Permian, Eagle Ford, Marcellus, Utica and Canadian producers, and the oilfield service companies
Reuters MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s government has issued new regulations to limit the ability of private firms to import fuel, according to a weekend decree, fanning concerns that the move may unduly benefit national oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex). The rules, issued by the energy ministry and scheduled to go into force on Monday, are part of a drive by
Reuters MEXICO CITY – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday his government will investigate allegations bribes were paid by the U.S. subsidiary of the world’s largest independent oil trader Vitol to state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex). Lopez Obrador, speaking at a news conference, said the accusations by the U.S. Justice Department related to bribes allegedly paid
Reuters MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s oil output hit a record low in July at 1.605 million barrels per day (bpd), down slightly for both state-run Pemex and upstart private producers and putting the country’s oil patch on track for its lowest production since the 1970s. Pemex, formally known as Petroleos Mexicanos, produced just 1.548 million bpd in July while private
Reuters MEXICO CITY – The trial of a former boss of Petroleos Mexicanos threatens to expose years of alleged malpractice at the state oil company and provide a canvas for Mexico’s leftist president to depict rot at the heart of government that he has vowed to clean up. Once a symbol of Mexican self-reliance and ingenuity, the firm known as
Forbes There are experiences in Mexico’s history (and certainly other countries’) that serve as painful reminders that building an economy highly dependent on hydrocarbons is not, in the long term, the cleverest of decisions. The oil boom in the 1970s and early 1980s and the resulting social and economic crisis left policymakers with valuable lessons that, considering today’s conversation around
Reuters MEXICO CITY/NEW YORK – Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos has seen investor sentiment improve in recent weeks despite sky-high debts, a slump in demand and no clear direction about how the government will turn the money-losing driller around. Despite all the risks of holding the world’s largest fallen angel, the ignominious distinction for a company that loses its
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