Ronald Buchanan, was born and bred in Glasgow, Scotland. Having launched a career in journalism with Scottish newspapers, he left for London to join The Guardian and, briefly, the Financial Times. From London, he moved to Mexico, where he wrote for Business Week, the Financial Times and other publications, several of them Mexican.
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Big Losses and Bigger Controversies Dogging Pemex, CFE
Mexico’s two leading state energy companies, which are no longer monopolies but which continue to dominate their sector, recorded losses totaling $10.3 billion in the second quarter.
August 1, 2018
Energy Industry on Tenterhooks Amid Mexico Government Transition
At a recent major Mexican oil and gas industry event, the first since the landslide election victory by President-Elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, business leaders and officials emphasized their support for the upcoming administration but also shared their concerns about the election’s potential impact.
July 31, 2018
Lopez Obrador Expected to Decentralize Mexico City’s Pemex, Energy Offices
Mexico President-Elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador aims to decentralize the government in a sweeping plan to ease the congestion of population, buildings, vehicles and pollution in the “megalopolis” of Mexico City, a strategy likely to impact the country’s energy sector from top to bottom.
July 18, 2018
Pemex, Energy Offices to be Moved to Wide Open Spaces Under Lopez Obrador
Mexico President-Elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador aims to decentralize the government in a sweeping plan to ease the congestion of population, buildings, vehicles and pollution in the “megalopolis” of Mexico City, a strategy likely to impact the country’s energy sector from top to bottom.
July 13, 2018
Mexico’s President-Elect Will Look to Return Pemex to Prominence
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the overwhelming victor in Mexico’s recent presidential election, believes that his future administration will make the state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, aka Pemex, “great once again.”
July 10, 2018
Slimline Pemex Could Achieve Lopez Obrador’s Dream for State-Owned Company
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the overwhelming victor in Mexico’s recent presidential election, believes that his future administration will make the state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, aka Pemex, “great once again.”
July 9, 2018
Candidates Mum on Energy Reform, NAFTA As Mexican Presidential Election Nears
Mexico faces presidential and national elections on Sunday following a campaign racked by violent deaths, accusations of corruption and gratuitous promises of cash handouts.
June 28, 2018
Supported by Panama Canal, Central American Natural Gas Revolution Prepares to March
The advance guard of the natural gas revolution in Central America is in place, led by AES Panama SRL and Engie SA in Panama with El Salvador’s Energia del Pacifico Ltda de CV (EDP) waiting in the wings.
June 28, 2018
Central American Natural Gas Revolution Preparing to March, Supported by Panama Canal
The advance guard of the natural gas revolution in Central America is in place, led by AES Panama SRL and Engie SA in Panama with El Salvador’s Energia del Pacifico Ltda de CV (EDP) waiting in the wings.
June 26, 2018
Mexico’s Likely President Facing Love-Hate Relationship with Pemex
Petroleos Mexicanos, the state oil company, is seen by most Mexicans as a blessing but at times a curse to the nation — a proud symbol of identity, but also of mismanagement, impunity and corruption.
June 20, 2018