By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Energy Secretariat (Sener) on Tuesday, July 27, ordered the country’s Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) to put an emergency maximum ceiling on natural gas prices in the face of soaring consumer costs. Sener gave the CRE just three days to establish a new pricing system that would guarantee affordable access for all consumers. In
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) is currently facing arbitration from the U.S.-based company Whitewater Midstream for a non-payment of gas acquired during February’s pipeline freeze and subsequent gas shortage in Texas. Estimates say that the CFE could owe as much as $100 million to Whitewater Midstream, which is one of the main suppliers of natural gas
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Faced with rising natural gas costs across the nation, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Wednesday, July 7, that his administration will soon open its own gas distribution company. “We are preparing the creation of a company to distribute gas at a fair price. It will be called Gas Bienestar (Gas Wellbeing) and
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF During the first quarter of 2021, Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) released 50.8 more waste gas into the environment compared to the same period in 2020, reaching the highest average in 12 years, according to the government’s own sources. On average, in the January-to-March 2021 period, 712 million cubic feet of natural
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Texas Gas Shortage The Arctic vortex that hit Texas and the north of Mexico on Monday, Feb. 15, did not catch the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) unprepared, said the commission’s director, Manuel Bartlett Díaz. The cold spell was expected, and the subsequent gas shortage it produced was also to be expected, he said, but not just for
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS BAKU, Azerbaijan — Tourism is a relatively new industry in Azerbaijan. Despite the fact that the tiny, landlocked republic can lay claim to three separate UNESCO World Heritage Sites — the medieval walled city of Old Baku, with its mysterious and emblematic Maiden Tower and the Palace of King Shirvanshah, built in the 15th century; the incomparable
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS BAKU, Aizerbaijan — When it comes to bone-chilling winds, Chicago has nothing on Baku. Situated on the southern side of the tip of Azerbaijan’s jutting Absheron Peninsula, the ancient Azeri capital is almost constantly battered by chilling, triple-digit-velocity gusts from the Caspian Sea, tempered only by warmer overland breezes from the inland regions of the country to the
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XINHUA Mexico’s government is investigating the possible sabotage of its liquefied petroleum gas distribution network by competitors of the state-owned oil and gas company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Monday, Jan. 20. “This has not been proven, so that’s why it’s a hypothesis that the culprits don’t want Pemex to have gas so the competition
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By RICARDO CASTILLO What was the political gossip this week in Mexico? Definitely, the “denunciations” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) made of nine past officials for stealing money from the near-bankrupt, still-government-run electricity monopoly, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE). As we covered in Pulse News Mexico, on Monday, Feb. 11, the president, during his daily press conference at the National Palace in downtown Mexico City,
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