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The Houston perspective on present, past and future of energy in Mexico: reports, commentary, interviews, conferences, newsletter and energy consultative services in Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico.
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In its seventy years in power, the PRI built a powerful, state‐run economy in the energy sector, based on two constitutional principles: 1) economic development would be guided by the State, and 2) the oil and power industries, as such, would remain off‐limits to the private investor who would seek a role as a producer and commercial actor in Mexico. The twelve years of rule by the PAN did nothing to change this basic framework.
In the old days of the PRI, Pemex, CFE and LFC were self‐regulated, with only a courtesy nod to the Energy Ministry (known by a sequence of acronyms: SEPAFIN, SEMIP, and, since the 1990s, SENER). Given the prohibition on independent commercial actors, all retail prices were set by the State, either directly by committee, or by algorithm (as in the case of netback pricing for natural gas based on U.S. price benchmarks).
George T. Baker
Principal, Publisher
Baker & Associates, Energy Consultants is a management consultancy and publisher of an industry newsletter, Mexico Energy Intelligence™ (MEI). Its consultants have advised international energy and technology companies about market opportunities and risks in the U.S.-Mexico operating environment, particularly in the upstream.
Originally conceived in the form of a one-page summary of a newsworthy or institutional event, MEI reports evolved into long-form journalism of the length found, for example, in The New Yorker.
Business Hours
Monday-Friday
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. (all times Central)
Saturday
9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Sunday
closed