Reinventing the Office of the President of Mexico (MEI 897, Houston, May 29, 2019) This report addresses two broad questions: During the first six months of the López Obrador administration, how has the national interest been served? In parallel, is the Mexico risk premium overpriced or underpriced in the energy...
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MEXICO’S MIDSTREAM PANEL AT OTC 2019
(MEI 895, HOUSTON, 05/15/2019) — This report provides highlights of panelist presentations at the Mexico country session of the 2019 Offshore Technology Conference. The session was structured in two segments: Operators and Service companies plus the midstream regulator. In the first segment, speakers from Pemex, BP, Murphy Oil and Fieldwood...
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2023 North American Corn and Energy Summit
(Houston, Texas, Dec. 30, 2022) This report provides a perspective on Mexico’s trade policies relating to biotech and energy, topics that will be among the topics discussed at the 2023 North American Leaders Summit (NALS), scheduled for Jan. 9-10, 2023. The report examines the background of the Mexican government’s decree...
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Mixed US-Mexico trade signals: U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce
Mixed US-Mexico trade signals: U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce HOUSTON (Oct. 28, 2022) –– To judge from comments voiced during the annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on September 21, 2022 of the Dallas-based U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce, there are mixed signals regarding the health of bilateral commerce. A success story was...
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Outlook for Deepwater Development in Mexico:Factors for success in Perdido Basin
(HOUSTON, JUNE 24, 2022) –– IN OUR REPORT ISSUED IN 2004 (MEI 679), we asked about “Pemex’s future production in deepwater: What is Plan B?” Seventeen years later, without the first barrel of oil from a deepwater reservoir, we ask this question again, only this time taking into account the...
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Talos Energy: From a commercial discovery to a commercial dispute (Extract)
Houston, September 20, 2021 –– Four years after making the largest commercial oil discovery in Mexico in a generation in 2017, the commercial expectations of the consortium led by Houston-based Talos Energy continue in suspense. A positive outcome in which Talos is the operator continues to be an elusive challenge...
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MEI Report 939 – Energy and the Public Interest
(Houston, June 29, 2021) — In this report, we ask about the public interest in Zama reservoir and the Deer Park Refinery. Click here to download MEI REPORT 939 (selected pages). ***WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUY THIS REPORT AND RECEIVE 50 PERCENT OFF***...
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AMLO’s proposed buyout at the Deer Park Refinery
(Houston, June 4, 2021) Public Policy Perspective Report 10080 –– A strategic unforced error that puts Pemex and Houston at risk. More on this story and podcast with George Baker, Houston-based analyst. Click here....
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Shell announced it would sell its stake in the refinery… Listen to podcast
(Houston, June 7, 2021) –– Shell announced that it would be selling its stake in the refinery . . . But the move may turn out to be a costly one for Pemex, and @lopezobrador_ George Baker is a Houston-based analyst on Mexico’s energy industry, talks to the Texas Standard....
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