墨西哥最終確定首個深水項目投標條款

Mexico’s oil regulator approved on Friday a final set of business-friendly tweaks to bid rules for a highly-anticipated upcoming auction that will pick a partner for state oil company PEMEX to develop its first-ever deep water project.

Among the final changes to the bid terms, the oil regulator, known as the CNH, voted to eliminate a provision in the joint operating agreement that would have given PEMEX the power to unilaterally remove the oil company chosen to operate the project. The CNH also voted to eliminate a cash bond that was included in the joint operating agreement, leaving just a bond set out in the license contract, as well as specifying that the operator will have the ‘decisive vote’ in the event of any work program disagreements.