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Mexico’s Energy Minister Nahle Stepping Down After Tumultuous Five-Year Tenure 

Mexico’s Energy Minister Nahle Stepping Down After Tumultuous Five-Year Tenure 

Mexico Energy Minister Rocío Nahle is resigning from her post to run for governor of Veracruz state, capping off a five-year stint as Mexico’s top energy policymaker. A petrochemical engineer and former employee of state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Nahle was handpicked for the post by Mexico’s firebrand president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, better…

October 16, 2023
Column: Gateway Pipeline Shows CFE Willing, Able to Work with Private Sector

Column: Gateway Pipeline Shows CFE Willing, Able to Work with Private Sector

Editor’s Note: NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index, a leader tracking Mexico natural gas market reform, is offering the following column by Eduardo Prud’homme as part of a regular series on understanding this process. It’s impossible to deny the positive aspects of the 1.3 Bcf/d Southeast Gateway Pipeline project announced by TC Energía in the first…

August 12, 2022
Mexico’s Dos Bocas Refinery Starting Operations Amid Controversy and Fanfare

Mexico’s Dos Bocas Refinery Starting Operations Amid Controversy and Fanfare

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s campaign promise of a refinery for his home state of Tabasco is being delivered this week. The 340,000 b/d Olmeca refinery in Dos Bocas will be inaugurated on Friday, July 1, exactly four years after López Obrador won the presidency. “With president López Obrador inaugurating his flagship Olmeca refinery,…

June 28, 2022