Mexico’s Amlo to continue drilling service contracts

Bloomberg

Mexico’s next president said he will continue with tenders for drilling service contracts starting when he takes office.
“We are preparing the rescue plan for the oil industry that will consist of producing more crude oil soon, and we will need these companies that have experience, most of them national companies,” President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said.
“We are already preparing tenders for the drilling of wells, and we are getting ready because we are going to launch those tenders from the first days of December.”
Lopez Obrador said he will travel to his home state of Tabasco on Saturday to meet with representatives from oil service companies. The meeting will take place with his pick for energy minister Rocio Nahle and the next chief
executive officer of Pemex, Octavio Romero, according to a spokesman for Lopez Obrador who asked not to be identified, citing internal policy.
Mexico’s National Hydrocarbons Commission plans to hold auctions for more than 40 blocks and Pemex farm-out deals on February 14.
The leftist leader had previously indicated that future oil auctions, which have lured some of the world’s biggest oil companies, could be suspended or cancelled as his government seeks to strengthen Pemex and focus on expanding refining capacity.