Category Archives: Gas Natural Industrial

Mexico Ruling on Zama Unitization Crucial Decision 2021

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(Houston, January 20, 2021) — Our interview with Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI), issued December 18, 2020, focused on the outlook for 2021 in the energy sector (link below). In the same spirit of wanting to look ahead to discern the shape of energy policy in Mexico in the coming years, we dug into the details Continue Reading

Lifting Mexico’s Oil & Gas Potential – A Presentation by George Baker

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Energy reform in any country with a National Oil Company (NOC) should include these goals: Lift the career potential of oil professionals. Devise an oil regime with these characteristics: Offers its NOC the opportunity to operate outside of its home country, in equity associations with top-tier IOCs; Offers IOCs investment opportunities with materiality, transparency and Continue Reading

News Commentary: How to reinvent the legal figure of a private mineral interest in oil and gas?

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The hermetic and heavy silence of the Peña Nieto administration regarding their ideas for an energy reform for the fall of 2013 leaves everyone guessing about what’s on their minds. How to reinvent the legal figure of a private mineral interest in oil and gas? Recently, I’ve been asking myself the question about what minimal Continue Reading

Pipeline Company Strategy in Mexico, 2013-18:

A pro-market action plan

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For the past 18 years, the Mexican gas pipeline and distribution companies have been blocked from realizing their original dream of business opportunities in Mexico. The Natural Gas Act of 1995 gave private industry the right to own and operate gas transmission and distribution pipelines; it gave them the right to import and export natural Continue Reading