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Harbour Energy, a London-listed oil firm created through a merger between Chrysaor and Premier Oil, has decided to exit the Sea Lion oil field development in the Falkland Islands. The company has a 60 percent stake in the oil field, with Rockhopper Exploration holding the remaining 40 percent stake. The field was discovered in 2010 by Rockhopper,... Continue Reading →
(Bloomberg) --Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is raising Pemex’s spending plan for next year to about $32 billion in a bid to boost flagging oil production. The funds allocated for the state producer in a 2022 budget proposal, including operational spending, represent a 17% increase from this year. Of the total, about $18 billion... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Mexico's government on Wednesday proposed sharply reducing the tax burden for state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos and forecast economic growth of 4.1% for 2022, as Latin America's second largest economy continues to recover from a COVID-19-induced slump. The finance ministry's 2022 draft budget, which it presented to Congress earlier in the day, laid... Continue Reading →
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday his government is tackling the debt burden of state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and hinted he would try to use funds from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to do so. Asked at a regular government news conference how his government would help Pemex in the... Continue Reading →
(Bloomberg) --Talos Energy Inc., the U.S. offshore explorer behind Mexico’s largest oil discovery in years, is taking the first step toward an international dispute after control of the field was given to state producer Pemex. The Houston-based driller sent the Mexican government a dispute notice Friday, a required step before moving to arbitration under the... Continue Reading →
(Bloomberg) --Mexico’s new Finance Minister Rogelio Ramirez de la O said he will continue support for state oil giant Pemex, but it’s too late to change the country’s oil laws. “The government is in full position to keep supporting Pemex,” Ramirez de la O said at a Moody’s event Thursday. But the government will also... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Brazil's real , will continue to get some aid this year from solid trade surpluses and further interest rate hikes that should help avoid bigger losses for the currency as domestic tensions intensify, a Reuters poll showed. The real has been rangebound, trading 4.90-5.40 against the U.S. dollar for roughly three months, while... Continue Reading →
Mexican national oil and gas company Pemex has restarted production from its Ku-Maloob-Zaap complex, located offshore Mexico, following a shutdown due to a fatal incident earlier in August. The fire erupted on the E-Ku-A2 platform located in the Bay of Campeche in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, 22 August 2021. The incident resulted in the deaths of five... Continue Reading →
A deadly accident on an offshore platform belonging to Mexican state oil company Pemex "may slow" the company's production growth rate, ratings agency Fitch said in a statement on Tuesday, after officials confirmed a sharp hit to output. The rating agency warning follows the weekend incident in the southern Gulf of Mexico which engulfed in... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - A fire that struck an offshore oil platform operated by Mexico's state-run Pemex cut the company's production by 444,000 barrels per day (bpd) due to the lack of natural gas to re-inject into crude fields, a company document showed on Monday. At least one person died and five others were missing following an... Continue Reading →
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