NOCs

Editor’s Note: NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index, a leader tracking Mexico’s natural gas market reform, is offering the following column by Eduardo Prud’homme as part of a regular series on understanding this process. One month after the midterm elections offered hope for change in the Mexican energy sector, some worrying signs have again begun to…

Oil and gas prices are on the up and Latin American producers should be able to reap some benefits thanks to recent cost-cutting efforts, according to a new report from Fitch Ratings. Latin American oil and gas companies have before tax full-cycle costs of approximately $34/bbl, Fitch said. This is well below most price forecasts…

As major economies across the globe emerge from the doldrums of the pandemic and travel surges, oil prices could further spike and reach $100/bbl by next year, according to the most bullish Wall Street forecast yet this year. It could also mark the final surge in oil prices, however, as pressure intensifies on energy companies…

Upstream oil and gas spending in Latin America is on track for a modest year/year (y/y) recovery in 2021 after a pandemic-driven slowdown in 2020, according to Evercore ISI. Exploration and production (E&P) spending by select firms in the region fell by 14% y/y in 2020, Evercore analysts said in the firm’s 2021 Global E&P…

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (Adnoc) has signed long-term sales agreements to supply two of the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) leading industrial companies with natural gas over the next 10 years as the company aims to boost output and the nation’s economic growth.  The deals, signed with integrated steel producer Emirates Steel and construction…

Private sector oil production in Mexico averaged 61,501 b/d during April, up from 55,682 b/d in April 2020, a 10.5% year/year increase, according to data from upstream regulator Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH). This marks the first time that monthly private sector production has surpassed 60,000 b/d since Mexico’s 2013-2014 constitutional energy reform ended state…

Mexico’s Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) reported a steep rise in the flaring and venting of its natural gas in its first quarter earnings call. Natural gas production was 3.70 Bcf/d in the first quarter of 2021, down slightly compared to the 3.71 Bcf/d reported in 1Q2020. But natural gas flaring shot up to 712 MMcf/d, from…

Latin America’s national oil companies (NOCs) must perform a difficult balancing act as they seek to bounce back from the pandemic and shore up profits and reserves, a panel of experts said during a virtual event Tuesday. Oil “is at the heart of economic, social [and] fiscal issues in Latin America,” said Mauricio Cárdenas, who…

Mexican state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) is forecasting a base-case scenario increase of natural gas production to 4.19 Bcf/d in 2021 from 3.64 Bcf/d realized in 2020, according to its newly released 2021-2025 business plan. For 2022, Pemex sees production reaching 4.39 Bcf/d before dropping to 4.1 Bcf/d in 2023 and 3.94 Bcf/d in…