It appears that Mexico is coming to its senses. Thus we will see an expanding supply of
Mexican oil sufficient to dominate global oil for two decades. It still takes serious time for this oil to
come into the market as we have witnessed elsewhere. It takes a minimum of ten
years through twenty to reach breakeven and to then reach capacity. However, Russian oil and Iraqi oil are now in
the market.
Yet all new oil is priced at $70 to $100 thus price reduction will be
brief and sporadic while global expansion continues unabated. Alternative energy sources all demand long
capital building cycles just to compete fully.
So unless recent stories of true free energy hold up we will remain in
full build out mode using oil and gas.
It is important to understand that 13 Billion in oil reserves make the
Americas independent for a long time.
When that runs down, we have the unmeasured reserves of the Mackenzie Basin
to develop. I would not be surprised it
that ultimately matches Mexiceo.
Mexican Oil Boom
$40 Oil?
Thursday, December 19th, 2013
Mexico has a
staggering amount of oil — roughly
13.87 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, according to state-run
oil firm PEMEX.
But that's just
the proven amount.
There are massive
amounts of unexplored regions as well, and they're packed with probable oil.
Fracking, the
same technology that is quickly turning the United States into the world's
biggest producer of oil and natural gas, will soon transform Mexico as
well. It could add as much as 460 trillion cubic feet of gas, and I've seen
numbers stating that deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico could add another
27 billion barrels of crude.
As if to back up this
prediction, British Petroleum (NYSE: BP) just found a “significant” discovery
300 miles southwest of New Orleans. (The company won't say how big it is until
it completes further drilling.)
More Oil
According to the U.S.
Energy Information Administration, Mexico possesses the biggest unexplored
crude oil reserves just behind the Arctic Circle.
However, up until now,
the nation’s charter has stated that this oil “belongs to the people.”
PEMEX is a woefully
run company full of corruption and ineptitude. It simply doesn't have the
wherewithal — or the technology — to produce this vast amount of oil.
Mexican oil production
has fallen roughly 25% over the past few years. The country now pumps just 2.5
million barrels per day.
The old traditional
wells are running dry... and almost unbelievably, Mexico is doing something
about it.
Rule Changer
Just last week,
Mexico’s congress approved a change to the nation’s charter in order to allow
foreign energy producers access to its oil fields. This change overturns a
75-year monopoly by PEMEX.
Under the terms of
additional proposals, international producers will be offered
production-sharing contracts or licenses, where they get to own the oil they
pump from Mexico’s ground.
Bloomberg has written:
An influx of Mexican oil would contribute to a
glut that is expected to lower the price of Brent crude, the benchmark for more
than half the world’s crude that has averaged $108.62 a barrel this year, to as
low as $88 a barrel in 2017, based on estimates from analysts in a Bloomberg
survey.
I don't know how the
Bloomberg experts came up with their numbers (except by moving the goal 20%, as
is standard with these guys), but judging by the chart, the price of oil is
rolling over. The uptrend keeps getting broken.
I put my next support
around $72. If it fails that — and it could, if the commodities guys go in on
the short side — there is no reason oil can't go back to its 2009 lows around
$40.
Regardless, there are
plenty of ways to play the coming Mexican oil boom.
Those companies that build pipelines are a good example.
I'm doing my due
diligence on a Mexican rolled steel producer. I'll get back to you on that one.
Happy hunting,
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