Entries by Soporte

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Unfinished business: Putting the final touches on the USMCA

The Hill /  David L. Goldwyn / October 29   The proposed US Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) makes important, but incomplete, progress in securing an integrated North American energy market. In terms of progress, the agreement preserves zero tariffs for trade in oil, gas and petroleum products across North America. It effectively locks in Mexico’s historic energy reforms […]

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Comment: Investors keep a watchful eye on Mexico’s new leftist leader

International Investment / Jonathan Clare / October 22   Jonathan Clare recalls the strikingly different Mexico of the 1990s, and looks at the country’s prospects today under a new, left-wing, administration. The Mexico of today is very different from the country I first experienced in the late 1990s. Back then I was based in Mexico […]

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A 14-year-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could become one of the worst in U.S. history

Tampa Bay Times / Darryl Fears / October 22   NEW ORLEANS — An oil spill that has been quietly leaking millions of barrels into the Gulf of Mexico has gone unplugged for so long that it now verges on becoming one of the worst offshore disasters in U.S. history. Between 300 and 700 barrels of oil […]

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Mexican President-Elect Pledges to Save Country’s Oil Sector

Sputnik News / October 15   MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has pledged to save the country’s oil sector just like former Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas, who headed the country from 1934 to 1940, had done. In March 1938, Cardenas announced the nationalization of the oil industry, and only in 2013, the […]

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UPDATE 7-Gulf of Mexico offshore platforms evacuated ahead of hurricane

CNBC / Gary McWilliams and Liz Hampton / October 8   (Adds Anadarko Petroleum cutbacks) HOUSTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Energy companies on Monday halted nearly a fifth of Gulf of Mexico oil production and evacuated staff from 13 platforms as Hurricane Michael intensified and headed for a path up the eastern U.S. Gulf. Offshore producers […]

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Feature: Mexico’s oil industry cautiously optimistic of future energy policy

S&P Global / Daniel Rodriguez / Edited by Pankti Mehta / October 1   Mexico City — Oil and gas executives attending last week’s Mexican Petroleum Congress (CMP) in Acapulco told S&P Global Platts that they were cautiously optimistic about the future of the country’s energy reform, pointing to higher oil prices and some clarification of […]