Andrew joined NGI in 2018 to support coverage of Mexico’s newly liberalized oil and gas sector, and his role has since expanded to include the rest of North America. Before joining NGI, Andrew covered Latin America’s hydrocarbon and electric power industries from 2014 to 2018 for Business News Americas in Santiago, Chile. He speaks fluent Spanish, and holds a B.A. in journalism and mass communications from the University of Minnesota.
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Pony Express Testing Support for Wyoming-to-Colorado Oil Pipe Expansion
Tallgrass Pony Express Pipeline LLC has launched a binding open season to gauge interest from crude oil shippers in securing expansion capacity on a section of the 830-mile pipeline. Pony Express has a capacity of roughly 400,000 b/d, and sources crude from the Williston, Denver Julesburg and Powder River basins. The system stretches from Guernsey,…
Natural Gas said Vital to Shrinking Mexico’s North-South Development Gap
Natural gas could help determine whether Mexico can shrink the economic gap between its industrialized north and developing south, according to a new report published by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Through his Program for the Development of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (PDIT), President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is aiming to succeed where…
Latin America Oil, Natural Gas Capex Seen Rebounding in 2021
Upstream oil and gas spending in Latin America is on track for a modest year/year (y/y) recovery in 2021 after a pandemic-driven slowdown in 2020, according to Evercore ISI. Exploration and production (E&P) spending by select firms in the region fell by 14% y/y in 2020, Evercore analysts said in the firm’s 2021 Global E&P…
Lower 48 Oil and Gas Producers Must Treat, Recycle More Produced Water to Reduce Earthquakes, Study Finds
Earthquakes in the Lower 48 oil and natural gas patch have been steadily increasing over the last four years and will continue to do so if the industry doesn’t adjust its methods for disposing of produced water, according to new analysis by Rystad Energy. The Oslo-based consultancy examined seismic activity in Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma,…
Mexico’s Pemex Scraps Zama Offshore Oil Appraisal Well as Wrangling Over Operatorship Continues
Mexico’s state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has jettisoned plans to drill an appraisal well delineating the Zama shallow water oil deposit, which straddles one block operated by Pemex and another operated by Talos Energy Inc. The decision was revealed Tuesday during a session of upstream regulator Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH). CNH approved a…
Texas E&Ps Independence, Contango to Merge in All-Stock Deal, Pursue Lower 48 Growth
Texas-based exploration and production (E&P) firms Independence Energy LLC and Contango Oil & Gas Co. announced Tuesday they will merge in an all-stock transaction. The E&Ps produced a combined 111,000 boe/d of oil and gas in the first quarter across several major Lower 48 basins. Houston-based Independence is owned and managed by global investment firm…
Mexico’s AMLO Loses Lower House Supermajority in Largest Ever Midterm
Mexico’s ruling Morena party and its allies lost their supermajority in the lower congressional house in Sunday’s midterm elections, placing a check of sorts on President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s nationalist energy agenda. Preliminary results showed that the president’s coalition still holds simple majorities in the senate and the chamber of deputies, which is enough…
Emissions Performance Said to Vary Widely Among U.S. Oil, Natural Gas Producers
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and emissions intensity vary substantially among U.S. onshore oil and gas producers, according to a new study by nonprofits the Clean Air Task Force (CATF) and Ceres. The report compiled data reported by 295 producers to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under its Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), and data calculated…
AMLO Energy Agenda Faces Test in Midterm Elections
Mexico president Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s nationalist energy agenda will face perhaps its biggest test yet on Sunday (June 6) when Mexicans head to the polls for midterm elections. Analysts suggest the results could determine whether the president’s Morena party and its allies have the majorities needed at the national and state levels to advance…
Biden Administration Suspends Alaska Coastal Plain Oil, Natural Gas Leasing Program
The Department of the Interior (DOI) on Tuesday suspended the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program launched by the Trump administration in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The order signed by DOI Secretary Deb Haaland halts “all activities related to the implementation of” the program, including leases awarded in the program’s first and…