(Reuters) - Mexico's government will bolster state-owned oil firm Pemex's capacity to pay down debt this year by deferring about $2 billion in taxes the company owes the state, Mexican Deputy Finance Minister Gabriel Yorio said on Thursday. Pemex, which had financial debt totaling nearly $108 billion at the close of last year, pays a... Continue Reading →
Iberdrola aims for US subsidies after Mexican asset sale
(Reuters) - Spanish power company Iberdrola (IBE.MC) will seek to expand in the United States and take advantage of its green subsidies after announcing the sale of gas assets worth $6 billion in Mexico, Chief Financial Officer Jose Sainz said on Wednesday. The sale significantly reduces the renewable energy giant's exposure to Mexico, where its relationship with... Continue Reading →
Mexico’s Pemex and Talos-led consortium hand over Zama development plan to regulator
(Reuters) - Mexican state oil company Pemex and a consortium led by U.S. firm Talos Energy (TALO.N) delivered a development plan for the Zama oil field to Mexico's oil regulator on Thursday, Pemex said. The plan includes two offshore platforms and the drilling of 46 wells, as well as the transportation of oil and gas to the... Continue Reading →
Eni Discovers 200 Million Barrels of Oil Offshore Mexico
Italian oil company Eni said Friday it had made a new discovery on the Yatzil exploration prospect in Block 7, located in the mid-deep water of the Cuenca Salina in the Sureste Basin, offshore Mexico. According to preliminary estimates, the new finding may contain around 200 million barrels of oil (MBoe) in place. Yatzil-1 EXP... Continue Reading →
GEM: Latin America has 319 GW of renewables announced by 2030; Brazil leads
(epbr) Global Energy Monitor (GEM) report shows that Latin America has the potential to increase its solar and wind energy capacity by more than 460% by 2030 if all 319 gigawatts (GW) of large-scale new projects announced, in pre- construction or under construction come into operation. This represents an increase of almost 70% in relation... Continue Reading →
Exclusive: Mexico’s Pemex, ‘punished’ by markets, weighs how to pay heavy debt
(Reuters) - Mexico's heavily-indebted state oil company Pemex will seek to avoid pricy capital markets even as it faces billions in maturing debts this year and next, its chief executive told Reuters, saying Pemex had been "punished" by ratings agencies despite measurable improvements in its operational numbers. With its financial debt totaling nearly $108 billion... Continue Reading →
Woodside on Track for Decision on Deepwater Trion Field in Mexico in 2023
Australia's Woodside Energy is on track to make a final investment decision this year on the Trion offshore oil project, which would inaugurate production in the deep waters of the country's Gulf of Mexico. [BHP Petroleum, now part of Woodside] partnered in 2017 with state-oil company Pemex, which discovered Trion's reserves five years earlier. The deal... Continue Reading →
Brazilian real’s strength challenged as economy sours
(Reuters) - Strength in Brazil's real currency will soon be challenged by rising worries about an ongoing downturn in Latin America's No.1 economy and disagreements among policymakers, a Reuters poll of foreign exchange specialists showed. The currency has been relatively stable close to 5.20 per U.S. dollar for months after a weak spell in the... Continue Reading →
New Fortress Plans to Start Producing from FLNG Unit Off Mexico in July
(Reuters) U.S. company New Fortress Energy said on Tuesday it planned to finish building its first Fast LNG unit in May before moving the plant to offshore Altamira in Mexico in June and producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) there in July. "We're less than 100 days away from our first (Fast) LNG setting sale to... Continue Reading →
Exclusive: Mexico’s Pemex increased gas flaring at top field, despite pledge to stop
(Reuters) - State oil company Pemex promised late last year that it would stop burning natural gas from a major field in southeast Mexico by mid-January, amid mounting pressure to improve its poor environmental record. But satellite data analyzed by scientists exclusively for Reuters - as well as a visit by reporters to the site... Continue Reading →