This week, Pemex announced that thanks to its 170 producing wells, Ku-Maloob-Zaap is for the third year the NOC’s best producing field, with an average daily production of 865,000 b/d and 349 Mcf of gas in December, a record breaking month for the field in terms of production. However, Pemex might not be quite as [...]
Continue Reading →When Felipe Calderón Hinojosa became President of Mexico in 2006, he appointed Jesús Reyes-Heroles as Pemex CEO. One of the main objectives with the changes made was for the NOC to become more competitive. The strategic decisions made with this idea in mind included fighting for an energy reform that would allow more participation from [...]
Continue Reading →En los seis años de la administración de Felipe Calderón, el país vio desfilar a tres diferentes Secretarios de Energía. Georgina Kessel Martínez, economista, que previamente había estado a cargo de la Casa de Moneda, se unió al gabinete del Presidente Calderón en 2006, como Secretaria de Energía. Durante su cargo, fue instrumental en la [...]
Continue Reading →Last week, Javier wrote about the problem of increasing the attractiveness of natural gas, so that Mexico can capitalize on its vast unconventional resources. To summarize, the biggest challenge in the way of increasing natural gas production in Mexico is that the current price of gas in the US, to which Mexican gas is indexed, [...]
Continue Reading →Now that Enrique Peña Nieto has been confirmed as the next Mexican President elect, it seems like a good moment to revisit the question of energy reform, based on conversations conducted with key players in the oil and gas industry over the last few weeks, and see what this means for the upstream sector in [...]
Continue Reading →Last week, as you probably figured out from your multiple visits to our stand and the activity from our Twitter account, we were at the Congreso Mexicano del Petróleo 2012. In what was the biggest petroleum congress ever in Mexico, according to the organizer committee and its President, Dr. Guillermo Domínguez, [...]
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