Christopher joined NGI as a Senior Editor for Mexico and Latin America in November, 2018. Prior to that, he was a Senior Editorial Manager at BNamericas in Santiago, Chile. Based out of Santiago, he has covered Latin American energy markets since 2009 as a reporter, editor and analyst. He has an MA in International Economic Policy from Columbia University and a BA in International Studies from Trinity College.
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Mexico Regulator Gives OK to Burgos Exploration Projects South of Texas Border
Mexico’s upstream oil and gas regulator, Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH), has approved the appraisal plan by exploration and production firm Pantera Exploración y Producción to drill two wells in the Burgos Basin south of the Texas border. One well is the Patriota-106DEL in Tamaulipas state, part of a modification to the evaluation program approved…
June 24, 2020
Mexico Regulator Gives Green Light to Deepwater, Burgos Exploration Projects
Mexico’s upstream oil and gas regulator, Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH), last Thursday approved drilling the Xakpún-1EXP deepwater exploration well by a subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corp., aka CNOOC. The J-shaped well plans to target light oil resources in the Gulf of Mexico’s Wilcox formation to a total depth of 6,346 meters (20,820…
June 23, 2020
Argentina Freezes Gas, Power Rates, Mulls Price Floor for Gas Production
Argentina’s government announced on Friday it is freezing natural gas prices for users until the end of the year and will forbid canceling utility services even if users haven’t paid their bills. The move is part of the country’s response to the coronavirus outbreak that has stalled the economy and has kept much of the…
June 22, 2020
Permian Natural Gas Closer to More Mexico Outlets as Mirage Secures Financing
Mirage Energy Corp. has signed a $4 billion debt facility with the family office of Bluebell International to develop a natural gas project that would add cross-border capacity into Mexico and connect to the planned Permian Basin-to-Gulf Coast Whistler pipeline.
June 19, 2020
Mirage Says Financing Secured for Expanded Mexico Natural Gas Pipeline, Storage Project
Mirage Energy Corp. has signed a $4 billion debt facility with the family office of Bluebell International to develop a natural gas project that would add cross-border capacity into Mexico, as well as the nation’s first underground gas storage facility.
June 18, 2020
FERC Proposes Five-Year Index Level for Interstate Oil Pipeline Rates
FERC has issued a notice of inquiry (NOI) on its proposed index level used to calculate annual changes to interstate oil pipeline rate ceilings for the next five years, beginning July 1, 2021.
June 18, 2020
Colombia Said Ready to Award Fracturing Pilots in October
Colombia’s National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) will award contracts for hydraulic fracturing pilot projects to interested companies by October, according to media reports.
June 16, 2020
Complaint by U.S. Energy Industry’s API Adds to Growing List of Private Sector Concerns in Mexican Energy
American Petroleum Institute (API) President Mike Sommers has sent a letter to U.S. officials expressing the group’s worry that recent actions by the Mexican government are hurting investors in the Mexican energy sector.
June 16, 2020
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Mexico’s Cenagas Focuses on Southeast, Industrials in New Consulta Pública
Mexico’s Centro Nacional de Control del Gas Natural (Cenagas) has launched the Consulta Pública 2020 with a specific focus this year on the natural gas needs of the south and southeastern parts of the country and industrial users.
June 11, 2020
Latin American Rig Count in May Plummets to Lowest Level Since 1982, but Mexico Still Active
Driven by plummeting oil prices and the shutdown of local economies from the coronavirus pandemic, Latin America’s rig count fell a further 27 rigs month/month to 62 in May, according to the latest figures from Baker Hughes Co.
June 9, 2020