Investment

Despite multiple headwinds currently facing Mexico, the long-term fundamentals underpinning the economy remain strong, according to BlackRock Inc.’s Juan Alberto Leautaud, head of Mexico Infrastructure Investment. As an infrastructure investor for the world’s largest asset manager, “I tend to think about the long-term…fundamentals of investments and assets, and in this case, a country,” Leautaud said…

The liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project in service on Quintana Island in Texas by Freeport LNG on Monday said it has secured all of the funding needed to add a fourth train.

Private equity heavyweights Sam Zell’s Equity Group Investments and Tom Barrack’s Colony Capital Inc. have formed a partnership to provide capital and asset management in the U.S. upstream oil and gas sector.

New Mexico’s oil and natural gas industry could attract as much as $174 billion in infrastructure investments through 2030 as its share of the Permian Basin continues to expand, according to an industry-backed study.

California Resources Corp. (CRC) said Tuesday it has partnered with a unit of Los Angeles-based Colony Capital Inc. to develop the producer’s flagship Elk Hills oilfield.

Midland, TX-based Tall City Exploration III LLC, an exploration and production (E&P) company focused on the Permian Basin and backed by Warburg Pincus, said it has secured financing of up to $500 million from funds affiliated with the equity giant to pursue bolt-on opportunities in the basin.

Oneok Inc. plans to invest $2.3 billion by 2020 on projects including a Midcontinent-to-Gulf Coast natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline, a fractionation facility in Mont Belvieu, TX, and a natural gas processing plant in North Dakota, the Tulsa-based company said Wednesday.

Dallas-based IOG Capital LP, which has an array of partnerships in the U.S. onshore to develop conventional and unconventional assets, said Thursday it has invested in three new drilling projects, one in the Eagle Ford Shale and two in Oklahoma.

Global oil and natural gas investments are predicted to climb this year, as U.S. onshore unconventional development spending rises, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Tuesday.