Ronald Buchanan

Seventy-three companies from 20 nations are exploring for oil and natural gas in Mexico, where every aspect of the hydrocarbons business, from upstream to retail, was a state monopoly until the 2013-14 nation’s energy reform, President Enrique Peña Nieto said this week in his sixth and last annual state of the nation address, known as the Informe.

After weeks of arduous renegotiations in an attempt to upend the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which bound together the economies of the United States, Mexico and Canada, President Trump on Monday declared victory and said he had a new trade agreement on the table with Mexico.

After weeks of arduous renegotiations in an attempt to upend the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which bound together the economies of the United States, Mexico and Canada, President Trump on Monday declared victory and said he had a new trade agreement on the table with Mexico.

What had looked like a routine trip to Panama for U.S. Treasury’s David Malpass, undersecretary for International Affairs, has unexpectedly pitched him into the frontline of trade tensions between the United States and China against a backdrop of Lower 48 liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to Central America.

What had looked like a routine trip to Panama for U.S. Treasury’s David Malpass, undersecretary for International Affairs, has unexpectedly pitched him into the frontline of trade tensions between the United States and China against a backdrop of Lower 48 liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to Central America.

The policy proposals and key government appointments made by President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador have provided a roller-coaster ride for Mexico’s energy industry and the analysts that follow it.

The policy proposals and key government appointments made by President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador have provided a roller-coaster ride for Mexico’s energy industry and the analysts that follow it.

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.

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.