What are likely to be the last upstream auctions of the current Mexican administration were postponed last Friday by the regulator, the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) amid signs of lack of interest from potential bidders.
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Mexico Ramps Up for Historic Round 3.3 Unconventionals Auction
Mexico’s energy authorities have taken a bold initiative by inviting tenders for the nation’s first auction of unconventional resources of massive but thus far unrealized potential and fraught with potential problems.
Fiscal Incentives Seen as Key to Unlocking Mexico’s Unconventional Oil, Natural Gas
Mexico’s oil and natural gas fields are so near but yet so far from the United States, where the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and horizontal drilling revolution have turned it into a global behemoth. Now Mexico stands poised as an unconventional threat as well.
Sener Makes Another Run at Unlocking Mexico’s Lucrative Unconventional Oil, Gas Reserves
Mexico aims to auction blocks of unconventional resources “sooner rather than later” to unleash the potential of shale and tight oil and gas in the northern part of the country, officials said last week.
Shell, El Paso Launch Plans for Mexican LNG Terminal
Shell Gas & Power and El Paso Global LNG announced plans to build Mexico’s first LNG import terminal, a 1.3 Bcf/d facility in Altamira, Tamaulipas on Mexico’s northeastern coastline. Initial investment costs are estimated to be up to $300 million, and the regasification terminal is expected to start importation of LNG in the first half of 2004.