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Oil & Gas

United States studying new visa limitations, oil sanctions on Venezuela amid post-election standoff

The U.S. government is studying. really carefully the possibility of imposing additional sanctions. on individuals in Venezuela along with prospective withdrawing. licenses for oil companies working in the South American. nation, in response to what it calls a deceptive election, a. senior authorities stated on Friday. Brian Nichols, U.S. assistant secretary of state for Western. Hemisphere affairs, made the remarks during a webcast instruction. with press reporters. Using either specific sanctions or the. cancellation of licenses related to sectoral sanctions are. something that we're studying extremely carefully, said Nichols, after. being asked about the possibility of imposing new visa. constraints...






Oil & Gas

Fossil Fuels

Fossil Fuels

Judge guidelines Mexican steelmaker AHMSA is bankrupt

A Mexican judge has stated local steelmaker Altos Hornos de Mexico is bankrupt, ruling that the firm will need to be offered and those funds utilized to pay back debt, following years of crisis connected to corruption allegations, court files revealed on Thursday revealed. Its previous president, Alonso Ancira, was detained in Spain in 2019 in connection with an examination into paying kickbacks to authorities at Mexico's state energy company Pemex in order to offer a fertilizer plant at an inflated cost. According to the court judgment, the personal bankruptcy was stated after the due date for a resolution in...

Power Markets

Mexican Senate votes to provide constitutional choice to state power business

Mexico's Senate voted to modify the country's constitution late on Wednesday to provide dispatch choices to state electrical power company CFE, cementing the national power generator's preferential status above foreign or personal rivals. The initiative passed the upper chamber of Congress with 86 votes to 39, fulfilling the requirement of two-thirds support to alter the constitution. The constitutional reform will need national grid operator Cenace to prioritize power created from the CFE's. power plants, even if it is more costly than power provided by. private producers. The proposal currently passed the lower house of Congress last. week, with support from...

Fossil Fuels

Sheinbaum sworn in as Mexico's very first lady president

Claudia Sheinbaum was sworn in as Mexico's very first woman president on Tuesday, taking the reins at a time the country is fighting with violence from arranged crime and a large deficit in Latin America's No. 2 economy. Sheinbaum, the 62yearold scientist and previous mayor of Mexico City, was inaugurated in a ceremony in Mexico's Congress for a. sixyear term lasting till 2030. Her supporters shouted President! President! and Long. live Mexico! after Sheinbaum took the oath of office in front. of legislators. Political watchers and experts forecast Sheinbaum will urgently. aim to calm investors following the passing of a...

Fossil Fuels

MercadoLibre, Latam's Amazon.com competitor, rides high with AI, loans, drones

When Wagner Dias and his other half Mariana needed a loan to grow their children's clothing organization, the Brazilian entrepreneurs turned to Argentina's MercadoLibre Inc, the online platform they use to offer their items. MercadoLibre, which is making a push into a progressively congested regional fintech and credit market, currently had the data it required to green-light the loan. The Amazon.com of Latin America has actually used developments like that to cement its status as the area's most important company with a market capitalization exceeding $100 billion. Because they had access to all my app history as a seller and...

Fossil Fuels

Two killed in fire from waste overflow at leading Pemex oil refinery in Mexico

2 employees died and another was hurt after a fire broke out over the weekend at the most significant domestic refinery owned and operated by Mexico's. state oil company Pemex, a company authorities said on Monday. The fire broke out on Saturday at the Salina Cruz refinery. in southern Oaxaca state, plant supervisor Arturo Recio informed. press reporters, explaining that a storm triggered the drains filled with. oily waste to overflow into the sidewalks inside the complex. A 21-year-old lady and 26-year-old guy working for Pemex. professionals died, and another man was hospitalized,. Recio stated. He said that work at...

Refined Products

Mexico's new oil refinery to cover 20% of fuel requires in weeks, president says

Production at a brand-new refinery owned and operated by Mexico's staterun oil business Pemex will fulfill a fifth of the nation's motor fuel needs within two weeks, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday. Production from the Olmeca refinery, situated at the Gulf Coast port of Dos Bocas, has been delayed several times considering that its symbolic inauguration in 2022. The center, a signature facilities project of Lopez Obrador, has actually been pitched as vital to the outgoing president's drive to make Mexico self-sufficient in gas and diesel. The refinery's expense has more than doubled to nearly $17. billion....

Oil & Gas Exploration

Mexico's Pemex agrees to 5% wage hike with oil workers union

Mexican state oil company Pemex said on Tuesday it accepted a 5% salary hike and a 2%. increase in benefits with the STPRM oil employees union, saying in. a declaration the boost will apply from August through. next July. Pemex and the STPRM reaffirm their commitment to labor. well-being for the advantage of the oil neighborhood and the. fortifying of the organization, Petroleos Mexicanos, as the. business is officially known, said in a statement. In a different declaration, STPRM stated the increase would. likewise use to pensions and that the agreement reflected STPRM's. determination to reach agreements that permit the...

Oil & Gas Refining

BP green lights 6th production center in Gulf of Mexico

BP said on Tuesday it has offered the goahead for the sixth run center, Kaskida, in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, with oil production slated to start in 2029. The new center features a brand-new drifting production platform with the capacity to produce 80,000 barrels of petroleum per day from six wells in the very first phase, BP said. The London-listed business found the Kaskida field in 2006 and last year restored strategies to establish it. The business said it plans to take advantage of its existing platform and subsea equipment designs that can be reproduced in future jobs to...

Oil & Gas Equipment

Mexico's Pemex swings to $14 bln quarterly loss on lower sales, currency losses

Mexico's stateowned oil business Pemex swung to a 256 billion peso ($ 14 billion). secondquarter bottom line on Friday, red ink the energy giant. chalked up to lower sales, a greater expense of sales and large. currency exchange losses. The quarterly loss compared to a net revenue of more than. $ 25.4 billion in the same period of in 2015. Pemex stated the loss would have been even higher if not for a. lower tax expense and a slower rate of wear and tear of fixed. possessions, according to a filing with the Mexican stock market. Revenue for among the...

Refined Products

Declining Mexican crude output might shatter energy self-reliance dream

Mexico's inbound President Claudia Sheinbaum will likely face a new challenge fulfilling the imagine energy independence that led her predecessor to invest $17 billion on a new refinery: a shortfall in domestic unrefined supply. The nation is a major crude manufacturer however output from the nation's older oil fields, mostly in the Gulf of Mexico, has plunged to more than a four-decade low. Without considerable spending on exploration and production, Mexico might find itself importing crude to feed its broadened refinery capacity in the next decade, an as soon as unheard-of modification of direction for the key worldwide exporter. For...

Natural Gas Liquids

New Fortress secures $700 million loan for 2nd LNG system in Mexico

U.S. energy infrastructure business New Fortress Energy stated on Tuesday it closed a. $ 700 million loan for its second liquefied gas. production unit at its Quick LNG project in Altamira, Mexico. The business said the second liquefaction unit will be. established in collaboration with Mexico's utility Comision Federal. de Electricidad utilizing an onshore terminal currently in place. The business anticipate to invest $1.3 billion in the Altamira. center, which will turn U.S. and Mexican gas into approximately 1.4 million. loads each year of LNG for export when completely functional. The FLNG project had its first output previously this month...

Fossil Fuels

EXPLAINER-Mexico constitutional reforms more likely with super-majority in sight

Mexican Presidentelect Claudia Sheinbaum's ruling coalition is close to protecting a. twothirds bulk in both chambers of Congress, which would. lead the way to passing controversial constitutional reforms on. its own. Preliminary results from Sunday's election show Sheinbaum's. leftist Morena celebration and its allies will have the supermajority. in the lower home, but likely came up short in the Senate when. new lawmakers are seated in September. Sheinbaum will take office one month later in October. Below are prospective reforms that have markets and financiers. concerned, and resulted in a sharp decline in Mexican possession costs on. Monday. DESPERATE EFFORT...

Environment

Environment

Companies reinforce currency hedges after Trump win as tariffs loom

Multinational business are beefing up their foreign exchange hedging techniques to safeguard their overseas earnings from bigger currency swings that could come from a 2nd Donald Trump presidency. Considering that the U.S. election 3 weeks back, strategists and lenders stated they are seeing more interest in options and crosscurrency swaps as companies, including those in healthcare and commercial sectors, concentrate on how volatile currencies might be under Trump. The election is a huge driver for hedgers to think about currency danger, said Karl Schamotta, primary market strategist at payments business Corpay in Toronto. Companies that for a long time were...

Environment

Business bolster currency hedges after Trump win as tariffs loom

Multinational companies are boosting their foreign exchange hedging methods to safeguard their overseas revenues from bigger currency swings that might come from a 2nd Donald Trump presidency. Considering that the U.S. election 3 weeks ago, strategists and lenders said they are seeing more interest in choices and crosscurrency swaps as business, including those in healthcare and commercial sectors, concentrate on how volatile currencies might be under Trump. The election is a big catalyst for hedgers to think about currency threat, stated Karl Schamotta, chief market strategist at payments business Corpay in Toronto. Services that for a long time were relatively...

Climate Change

Trump 2.0 looms as world leaders head to South America for tops

World leaders are heading to South America for twin tops this month, with one major theme dominating: Donald Trump 2.0. Peru is the very first stop, for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) online forum on Nov. 13-15, followed by a Group of 20 (G20) prominent economies meeting in Brazil on Nov. 18-19. A. busy month of worldwide summits has likewise seen the COP29 climate. change conference in Azerbaijan. For leaders from the Asia-Pacific region, APEC on Thursday. will be the first time they have collected considering that the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election, which ended in triumph for Republican. Trump,...

Mining

Mineral Resources

Mineral Resources

Chile's Codelco promotes October as finest production month this year

Chile's staterun copper business Codelco registered its finest production of the year in October, Chairman Maximo Pacheco said on Thursday. The world's leading copper miner has actually been struggling to lift output after hitting historical lows in the last 2 years. Recently, the company reported its production through September had actually fallen 4.9% compared to the exact same period a year earlier. Pacheco did not information how much production totaled up to in October, however stated it surpassed the exact same month in 2015. October was the best month in the year so far, he said in a statement. We...

Mineral Resources

Reserve banks stay keen purchasers of gold, agents inform bullion conference

Reserve banks stay eager purchasers of gold to diversify their reserves for financial or strategic factors, agents of 3 central banks told the London Bullion Market Association's annual conference in Miami on Monday. Raised need for gold from reserve banks underpinned the rate of the non-yielding gold when the worldwide interest rates were high in 2022-2023 and after that decreased with this year's 28%. spot gold price rally. China's reserve bank kept back on buying. gold for a 5th straight month in September. In spite of the gold rally, representatives of reserve banks of. the Czech Republic, Mongolia and Mexico...

Mineral Resources

First Quantum expects feasibility studies for Peru mine by 2028, manager says

Canadian miner First Quantum Minerals expects upgraded drilling results for its Peru copper task La Granja in the 2nd half of next year, and expediency studies by 2028, project development supervisor Steven Lewis stated on Thursday. The drilling is advancing well, it's at 35%, and we expect to have the lead to the 2nd half of next year, Lewis stated on the sidelines of a mining market conference. About the feasibility studies slated for completion by 2028, he said: We're working to satisfy this due date. First Quantum last year bought a 55% stake in the job, which is co-owned...

Mineral Resources

Proposal to ban open-pit mining advances in Mexican Congress

A committee in Mexico's. lower home of Congress approved two constitutional reforms that. would prohibit openpit mining and fracking, along with restrict. using genetically customized corn. The propositions, handed down Wednesday, will be taken up for. discussion by the full lower home after lawmakers return to. session in September. The modifications would also avoid the exploitation of water in. areas with water scarcity, with the exception of extraction in. inhabited areas for domestic use, according to a statement. launched Wednesday night. The modifications are part of a bundle of constitutional reforms. provided in February by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador,....

Mineral Resources

'El Mayo,' declared Mexican drug kingpin, appears in US court in wheelchair

Ismael El Mayo Zambada, the infamous alleged cofounder of the Sinaloa Cartel, appeared in an El Paso, Texas courtroom in a wheelchair on Thursday after pleading innocent last week to drug trafficking charges following his dramatic arrest. Zambada wore a navy sweatshirt that read carpe diem ( take the day) above a picture of a soccer ball to his very first status conference before U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone. At the 10-minute hearing, Cardone informed lawyers she had designated the case as complex - which extends the timeline for trial - and set the next status conference for Sept. 9....

Mineral Resources

Peru 2024 GDP development ought to go beyond 3.1%, president states

Peru's economic development this year must surpass the 3.1% rate formerly estimated, President Dina Boluarte said in a speech on Sunday, another sign of enhancement as the nation recuperates from an economic crisis last year. Peru's central bank in June projection gdp development at 3.1% for this year, after the economy contracted 0.6%. in 2023. This strong efficiency reflects the durability of the. Peruvian economy. We committed to recovering our growth capacity. and we are on that path, Boluarte said in a speech to Congress. For years among South America's leading performers, Peru's. economy struggled last year in the aftermath...

Mineral Resources

Geopolitics surpasses inflation at top of sovereign wealth fund fret list

Geopolitical rivalries, including developing trade battles between the United States and China, now trump inflation as the biggest concern for sovereign wealth funds and reserve banks handling some $22 trillion in possessions, an Invesco survey released on Monday revealed. The ratcheting up of dispute - from Russia's war in Ukraine to trade restrictions - has loomed over worldwide investors for several years, but with the inflation tide ebbing, and as nearly half the world's population votes on brand-new leaders, the tensions are now centre phase. This naturally is the year of elections, stated Rod Ringrow, Invesco's head of main organizations,...

Mineral Resources

China's Ganfeng files arbitration versus Mexico over lithium deposit

China's Ganfeng and 2 of its units aiming to establish a lithium job in Mexico registered an arbitration case against the Mexican federal government over the mining concession, according to the World Bank's. conflict settlement center. The post by the lending institution's International Centre for Settlement. of Financial Investment Disagreements (ICSID) on its website was dated Friday,. and lists the case, submitted by Ganfeng International Trading,. Bacanora Lithium and Sonora Lithium, as pending. Shanghai-based Ganfeng is a leading global battery maker and. lithium miner. The case centers on Mexico's most sophisticated lithium mining. job, located in northern Sonora state, and...

Mineral Resources

China's BYD postpones plans for 2025 Chile lithium cathode plant

Chinese carmaker BYD Co. has delayed plans to produce lithium cathodes for. electrical vehicle (EV) batteries in Chile by 2025, the company's. Americas head told on Tuesday. Chile's financial advancement firm CORFO in 2015 stated. production at a new plant to be developed by BYD was anticipated to. begin around the end of 2025, representing a $290 million. investment in the world's second-largest lithium-producing. country. BYD Chief of Americas Stella Li stated she was not sure when the. business would resume its strategies, citing uncertainty and. complications around the task, which would make parts. needed for electrical vehicle (EV) batteries....

Mineral Resources

Trilateral labor panel guidelines in favor of Mexico in mine case

A labor panel under the trilateral trade agreement between the U.S., Mexico and Canada ruled in favor of Mexico, which argued the arrangement did not have the jurisdiction to review alleged labor rights infractions at a mine in the nation, Mexico said on Friday. The U.S. had actually requested a probe in 2015 into declared workers' rights abuses at a Grupo Mexico mine in the main state of Zacatecas. Mexico argued the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade pact did not apply, as the problems at the mine had been happening because before the pact went into impact in 2020. This...

Mineral Resources

Southern Copper's copper output seen above 1 mln heaps in 2027, states Grupo Mexico

Grupo Mexico expects its Southern Copper mining arm to produce over 1 million metric tons of copper by 2027, the department's financing chief said on Friday, pointing to betterthanexpected production from its portfolio of projects. The business also edged up its forecasts for this year, anticipating output of 949,000 loads, stated Leonardo Contreras, the system's primary financial officer, in an earnings call. The executive approximated that output of the secret industrial metal from the division's tasks will then dip to 920,000 heaps over the next 2 years as the miner ramps up projects to reach production of 1.02 million loads...

Mineral Resources

Mexican cement maker Cemex's Q1 revenue climbs up despite dip in volumes

Mexican cement maker Cemex reported a 13% boost in firstquarter internet revenue on Thursday, strengthened by lower taxes and less exposure to financial derivatives, although its operating profits decreased. The firm, among the world's biggest cement producers, posted a net profit of $254.4 million, beating analysts' estimate of $218.2 million according to LSEG data. Profits inched up 3% year-over-year to $4.14 billion, simply shy of experts' quote of $4.19 billion, regardless of volumes falling in all of its product sections. On a like-to-like basis, earnings was stable from the year-ago quarter, Cemex said. Cemex Asia is divesting its Philippine operations,...