Latin America’s two biggest oil companies are betting on a high-risk effort to unlock crude from deeply buried Jurassic rocks offshore Mexico. Petroleo Brasileiro SA and Petroleos Mexicanos have teamed up to evaluate a pre-salt play beneath the Gulf of Mexico that is older, deeper and potentially richer in oil than many existing fields. The […]
The near collapse of Venezuela’s once colossal oil industry under the weight of endemic corruption‚ and strict U.S. sanctions, along with Mexico’s sputtering mature oil fields, saw Latin America’s economically crucial hydrocarbon sector fall into decline.