The Ministry of Energy (Secretaría de Energía or SENER) on May 15, 2020, issued the Order for the Reliability, Safety, Continuity and Quality Policy in the National Electric System (the Order). The Order considerably modifies...more
According to the Mexican Constitution, Mexico's Consejo de Salubridad General (the National Health Council) is the governmental body authorized to declare the COVID-19 pandemic a national sanitary emergency on the grounds of...more
Mexico's Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) has amended its general provisions (GP) for procurements, leases and contractors of services and works for the CFE and its productive subsidiaries. The main amendments, released...more
• The new Mexican Administration has started to study and make adjustments to energy policy and regulation. That work along with rulings from Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) and Centro Nacional de Control de Energía...more
1/30/2019
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México tendrá una nueva administración que durará seis años desde el primero de diciembre. La estrategia de energía delineada hasta el momento es fortalecer a la Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), con la participación de...more
9/19/2018
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A new administration of the Mexican government is taking over for a six-year term on Dec. 1, 2018. The strategy, so far, is to reinforce the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) with the participation of private...more
9/19/2018
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Before Mexico's energy reform of 2013, private companies had a limited participation in the electricity market. Among other opportunities, power generation was particularly attractive due to the fact that self-supply and...more
México tendrá una nueva administración que durará seis años desde el primero de diciembre. El Presidente electo Andrés Manuel López Obrador ha estado delineando su estrategia de energía. Una parte de ésta, es el nombramiento...more
The new administration of President-Elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador will take over the Mexican government for a six-year term on Dec. 1, 2018. The President-Elect has been outlining his administration's energy strategy,...more
Mexico's energy reform of 2013 opened both of the country's energy sectors: Oil and gas as well as electricity. As the industry moves to take advantage of the new market opportunities, a new administration is set to take over...more
• Mexico's new administration, led by President-Elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has promised to not rescind the energy reform of 2013, but to closely review the exploration and production (E&P) contracts already awarded to...more
Mexico's Energy Reform, established in 2013, opened opportunities for supply and trading of energy at the Electricity Wholesale Market (Mercado Eléctrico Mayorista or MEM) and the use of national transmission lines and...more
• Mexico recently voted for a new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in the biggest – and likely the most important – election in the country's history, electing the first left-wing candidate in Mexico.
• While it is...more
7/10/2018
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Tabasco is known for being one of Mexico's oil states, with a very developed industry and fields. As such, the federal Port Authority Dos Bocas (API Dos Bocas), located in the southeast of the Gulf of Mexico, has an...more
7/5/2018
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El pasado 18 de mayo de 2018 se publicaron en el Diario Oficial de la Federación las Disposiciones Generales de Contratación para Petróleos Mexicanos y sus Empresas Productivas Subsidiarias.
Se establece un capítulo de...more
The new "General Rules for Contracts with Petróleos Mexicanos and its Subsidiary Companies" was enacted and published in the Mexican Official Gazette on May 18, 2018.
The new rules include a chapter on integrity in...more
Most of the Mexican port infrastructure is assigned to Port Authority bodies, which are mainly state-owned corporations that run all aspects of operation and allocation of activities inside each port.
Among other activities,...more
• Before Mexico's Energy Reform of 2013, large-scale power generation was reserved to the state-run Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) or to private investors through government contracts under an independent power...more
2/15/2018
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Pemex Logística, la subsidiaria de Petróleos Mexicanos que administra la red de terminales y ductos de la empresa del Estado, planea realizar 11 subastas para reservar capacidad de transporte y almacenamiento en 60 terminales...more
Pemex Logística, the Petróleos Mexicanos subsidiary that manages the network of terminals and pipelines of the state company, plans to hold 11 auctions to reserve transportation and storage capacity in 60 terminals and 27...more
Under Mexico's Energy Reform of 2013, the power industry opened investment and contracting opportunities that were once reserved to the State. In case of transmission and distribution activities, the Mexican State still keeps...more
Mexico's Energy Reform of 2013 opened activities of the country's Power Market to private investors. Mexico is passing from a state-run power company, the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), to private investors and...more
Under Mexico's Energy Reform of 2013, the private sector may participate and invest in a number of energy-related activities. One of the most attractive activities is power generation, especially considering that distributed...more
Mexico's Telecom and Antitrust Federal Courts have issued three resolutions declaring that the model used by the Comisión Federal de Telecomunicaciones (COFETEL) for calculating interconnection costs for fixed and mobile...more
Under Mexico's Energy Reform of 2013, the power market opened for private investment sector-wide. However, the Federal Electricity Commission, or Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), is still in charge for supplying basic...more