Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced naval support for Pemex’s oil platforms following a pirate attack that left workers injured and exacerbated the state-owned company’s ongoing challenges
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Grupo Cotemar, a favorite contractor of Pemex, was previously involved in two Pemex accidents that resulted in the loss of nine lives
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An analysis by geographer Guillermo Tamburini revealed a 400 kilometer oil spill in the area that may have grown as large as 1000 square kilometers by July 17
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Grupo Cemza subsidiaries Marinsa and Enermar were recently granted 160 million pesos worth of contracts by Petróleos Mexicanos despite allegations of money laundering and non-compliance against the parent company’s leadership
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By KELIN DILLON The deadly explosion on Mexican oil venture Petróleos Mexicanos’ (Pemex) Ku-Alfa platform in the Campeche Sound, which left five dead and two missing, will now result in a 25 percent loss in production for the state-owned company. A total of 142 wells were closed after the disaster, slowing production by 421,000 barrels of oil a day. “The
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Private Hospital Expropriations Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) published an executive order on Friday, March 27, awarding the federal government the right to “make use of all medical sectors, public, social and private, in the regions affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.” In short, private hospitals may be privatized for pandemic use only. The decree, published
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XINHUA … Mexico will reinforce military surveillance along its gulf coast following recent incidents of piracy, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO One of several reasons why Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) won the 2018 Mexican presidential elections was his protest against former President Enrique Peña Nieto’s energy reform. Back in 2013, AMLO demanded that a referendum be held during the 2015 mid-term election to seek voters’ approval of the reform. Peña Nieto refused to carry out that
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