Mexico

BP plc, North America’s largest natural gas supplier, is now delivering 200,000 MMBtu/d to Mexico industrial users, local distribution companies (LDC) and independent producers in eight states.

As Mexico’s energy deregulation continues to ramp-up, state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) is being asked by the Mexican government to produce more crude in 2018 while reducing its spending.

No Mexican shippers submitted bids at a small auction held Sunday to release capacity on the NET Mexico pipeline, which carries gas from the Agua Dulce hub in South Texas to the Texas border town Rio Grande City.

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiations are an opportunity to update the 1994 treaty so that it reflects changes in Mexico’s oil and natural gas sector and deepened ties to Canada and U.S. energy markets, according to analysts.

Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Tuesday that, if elected, he would seek to review exploration and production (E&P) contracts signed after the country’s 2013 energy reforms.

Private equity-backed Santa Fe Midstream LLC said Friday it has jumped into the natural gas processing game in the Permian Basin, with a system underway that should be operational by mid-2018.

The strongest earthquake in Mexico in more than a century, which struck near midnight on Thursday, initially appears to have spared the natural gas and oil industry.

Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Tuesday that, if elected, he would seek to review exploration and production (E&P) contracts signed after the country’s 2013 energy reforms.

The Mexican government continues to update its environmental regulations as authorities prepare for the first exploration and production (E&P) auction to feature blocks with unconventional oil and natural gas resources since the energy reforms of 2013.