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 […]
Mexican state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos is putting a freeze on new contracts with service providers as the company works to pay off the roughly $20 billion it owes suppliers.