This year, which has been proclaimed as the “Year of Heydar Aliyev,” the Azerbaijani people celebrate the centennial of the birth of their great leader, who dedicated his entire life to serving his beloved homeland
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By KELIN DILLON In the central Mexican state of Hidalgo, gangs of huachicoleros – gas thieves and resellers – have taken their operations to another level of stealth, building secret underground tunnels to tap into and siphon gas from the area’s network of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) pipelines without detection. According to soldiers stationed in the region, the huachicoleros are able
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By KELIN DILLON According to figures from the U.S. Department of Energy, Mexico is expected to increase its purchase of natural gas from the United States over 2021 and the upcoming year due to higher demand and less production in Mexico itself. In June of 2021, Mexico reportedly bought more than 7 billion cubic feet of gas on several different
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By KELIN DILLON Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Mexico’s government-owned petroleum company, is reportedly on track to have a record-breaking amount of stolen gas in the year 2021, thanks to Mexico’s “huachicoleros,” meaning gas thieves. Since the official record of gas thefts in the country in 2011, the huachicoleros reportedly upped their efforts 3,108 percent between 2019 and May of 2021. Pemex’s
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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 KELIN DILLON Environmentalists are lashing out against Mexico’s oil-friendly practices after the appearance of a massive fireball in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, July 2, which was caused by a leak in one of state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos’ (Pemex) pipelines through the area. The massive fire “demonstrates the serious risks that the fossil fuel model in Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s government has announced its intention to revoke permits from Ienova-TC Energy for the operation of the South Texas-Tuxpan gas pipeline, one of the most important pipelines in the nation, that stretches across 689 kilometers of the country’s federal maritime zone. “It is not feasible to continue granting said authorization, until (Ienova) proves due compliance with the
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