Houston Chronicle by James Osborne June 25, 2020
Ahead of a U.S. visit by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, energy companies are ramping up pressure on the Trump administration to persuade Obrador to move ahead with energy reforms that were supposed to mean big business for U.S. firms.
Since taking office in 2018, Lopez Obrador has steadily rolled back market reforms, put in place by his predecessor, to protect state-owned oil and power companies that stood to lose market share to foreign competitors tasked with modernizing the nation's aged energy sector.
"American companies have invested billions of dollars in Mexico since 2013, primarily in storage, pipelines, and marketing infrastructure," Chet Thompson, president of the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, a trade group representing refineries, wrote in a letter to President Donald Trump this week. "Unfortunately, recent actions taken by the Mexican government threaten the important progress that has been made."
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