“Mexico’s economic growth and social development will require from the assistance of a well-equipped energy sector, capable of overtaking the forthcoming challenges and able to provide a wide supply of needed products and services to sufficiently tend for the national demands. All of this while maintaining satisfactory enough performance levels to reflect the implementation of [...]
Continue Reading →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 →In a speech to his party on Tuesday, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, the founder of the PRD, called for constitutional reform in order to turn Pemex into “a true state enterprise, with full autonomy of its management and budget.” He argued that constitutional reform was a necessary step in achieving this, stating that two [...]
Continue Reading →Some things about Mexico’s 2012 presidential election are strangely reminiscent of the same time back in 2006: an intensive questioning of the transparency of the electoral process and a familiar chant: “Vote by vote, voting booth by voting booth!”
On Sunday, exit polls and preliminary results from the Federal Electoral Institute positioned Enrique Peña Nieto [...]
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