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(Reuters) - Mexican state oil company Pemex reported a $6.05 billion fourth-quarter net loss on Monday, driven by highertaxes and currency exchange losses despite more oil output, with the firm set to require further big cash infusions from the government. Pemex (PEMX.UL), which has long struggled to stay in the black, managed to turn a... Continue Reading →
Russia’s Lukoil has completed the acquisition of a 50 per cent operated interest in the Area 4 project – located in shallow waters offshore Mexico – through a deal with the operator’s holding company for $435 million. Back in July 2021, Lukoil entered into an agreement to acquire the 50 per cent operator interest in the Area... Continue Reading →
Italian oil company Eni has started oil production via the Miamte FPSO at the Miztón field, offshore Mexico The field sits in Area 1 in the Gulf of Mexico, about 10 kilometers offshore the Tabasco coast. Upon its arrival in Mexico in January 2022, Miamte FPSO has been connected to its Mooring System and... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Mexico's economy contracted for a second straight quarter in the last three-month period of 2021, according to official data published on Monday, putting Latin America's second-largest economy in a technical recession. Gross domestic product (GDP) shrank in the fourth quarter by 0.1% from the previous three-month period in seasonally adjusted terms, preliminary data... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Mexican state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos will take control of the Deer Park refinery in Houston, Texas on Jan. 20, three sources with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday. Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) had agreed in May to sell its majority stake in the Deer Park refinery, which can process up to 340,000 barrels... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - A debt refinancing operation for Mexican national oil company Pemex that swapped the highly-indebted firm's short-term bonds for a new 10-year bond has been completed, the finance ministry announced on Sunday. In a statement, the ministry said the near-term debt management scheme lowers Pemex's overall debt load by $3.2 billion, while reducing "financial... Continue Reading →
Mexico's attorney general has requested a prison sentence of up to 39 years for the former chief executive of state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) for his role in a corruption scandal, two judicial sources said on Wednesday. Emilio Lozoya is accused of having requested money from scandal-plagued Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht to partially finance... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Mexico's Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) said on Tuesday it would drastically reduce planned crude exports next year as the state oil company works to meet the government's target of refining all of its oil domestically. Pemex Chief Executive Officer Octavio Romero projected that its crude exportswould fall to 435,000 barrels per day (bpd) in... Continue Reading →
Rio de Janeiro, December 23, 2020 - Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 02/19/2021, informs that it signed today with Carmo Energy S.A. a contract for the sale of all its stakes in a set of 11 concessions of onshore production fields, with integrated facilities, located in the state... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - The U.S. government has authorized the purchase by Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) of Royal Dutch Shell's (RDSa.L) controlling interest in a Texas oil refinery in a transaction that should conclude early next year, Mexico's government said Wednesday. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told a regular news conference that the U.S. government had on Tuesday approved... Continue Reading →
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