PECOM 2016 highlights Mexico’s potential

All eyes will be on the current and future potential of Mexico’s oil and gas industry at the 22nd annual Petroleum Exhibition & Conference of Mexico (PECOM),taking place 5-7 April in Villahermosa, Tabasco.

PECOM 2015 exhibit floor, from OE Staff.

PECOM’s agenda will provide an array of critical content, including the latest updates on the energy reform from Mexico’s Secretary of Energy (SENER), CNH and the legal community. Attendees will hear from top Pemex officials and other industry leaders who will offer case histories, lessons learned, best practices, new technologies.

This year’s event features a data room from Mexico’s regulator the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH).

“The CNH data room will be accessible to all companies participating in PECOM and will feature information being made available to businesses as well as briefings on the governing rules, such as contract administration, measurement, and opinions,” said Oscar Roldan, head of the national data repository, CNH. “PECOM is a very important event to Mexico’s oil and gas future and we are proud to be a continuing part of its success.”

Roldan will also speak at PECOM about CNH and its role in Mexico’s oil and gas opportunities.  More information about CNH’s data room can be found in OE’s March 2016 Mexico Supplement.

PECOM kicks off on Tuesday, 5 April, with an opening ceremony, followed by a ribbon cutting, VIP tour, and opening reception.

On Wednesday, 6 April, David Madero, CENEGAS general director, and Chevron’s Benigna Leiss will start the day off at the US Department of Commerce breakfast to discuss Mexico’s deepwater projects, and SENER’s five-year plan.

The featured keynote speakers on Wednesday include Georgina Trujillo, federal deputy and president of the Energy Commission of the LXIII Legislature, discussing the energy reform in hydrocarbons and the national and regional development. Following, Dr. Lourdes Melgar, Undersecretary of Hydrocarbons at Ministry of Energy, will cover the progress in the oil and gas sector of the Energy Reform.

A round table of experts from Geo Estratos, Compañía Petrolera Perseus, and Sierra Oil & Gas will discuss the vision of the new operators in exploration and production.

Eduardo Nuñez, managing partner and head of the energy and regulatory law practice for Núñez Rodríguez Abogados, S.C. will discuss how participants can get contracts with Mexico’s state-owned Pemex.

On 7 April, conference delegates will hear from keynote speakers Jose Antonio Escalera Alcocer, director of exploration, Pemex Exploration and Production; Carlos Morales, Petrobal general director, will examine on the type of oil and gas opportunities that will attract investments; Halliburton’s Mario Alejandro Mosqueda Thompson will discuss the future vision for process automation in the control of exploitation; Weatherford Mexico’s Leonardo Jimenez will speak about production optimization using Insert Progressing Cavity Pumps (I-PCP) and Hydraulic Equipment for Heavy Oilfields in Mexico.

The closing ceremony will kick off with a reception celebration inside the exhibit hall on Thursday evening.

For more information of PECOM, visit www.pecomexpo.com.

To register in English, click here. To register in Spanish, click here.

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