Mexico

Mexico’s upstream regulator has awarded oil and natural gas marketing services contracts to Trafigura Group Pte Ltd. and CFEnergia.

This year has proved to be a lean one for unearthing new oil and natural gas resources, although North America gained from Mexico discoveries, according to research by Rystad Energy.

Bypassing more conventional ways to stop a pipeline, members of an indigenous Yaqui tribe have taken a 25-foot segment out of a new natural gas pipeline running north to south through the Mexican state of Sonora.

Mexico’s state oil company this week migrated the first of its pre-reform oilfield services (OFS) contracts to a new model.

The Mexican energy ministry (Sener) on Thursday put out for public comment its long-awaited natural gas storage policy.

Eni SpA has raised the estimated oil in place for an offshore block in southern Mexico to 2 billion boe.

Since its founding in 1938, the Mexican state oil and natural gas company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has been regarded with reverence as a symbol of national sovereignty. Yet amid the enthusiasm and the controversy generated by the 2013-14 energy reform, the company has often appeared to be an afterthought.

Mexico’s upstream regulator has signed a cooperation agreement with the country’s Naval Secretariat to monitor offshore exploration and production (E&P) activities using satellite technology.

Mexico plans to announce by mid-December two tenders for liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply to ease potential shortages of natural gas, a senior official has told NGI.