Research Catalog

Title

Mexican oil and natural gas : political, strategic, and economic implications / Richard B. Mancke.

Author

Mancke, Richard B., 1943-

Publication

New York : Praeger, 1979.

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Details

Description

x, 163 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

• Petroleum industry and trade > Mexico
• Gas industry > Mexico
• Natural gas > Mexico
• Gas industry
• Natural gas
• Petroleum industry and trade
• Erdölwirtschaft
• Gaswirtschaft
• Gas industry > Mexico
• Natural gas > Mexico
• Petroleum industry and trade > Mexico
• Mexico
• Mexiko

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 157-163.

Contents

• 1. The promise and problems of Mexican oil : an overview -- Importance of Mexican petroleum for the United States -- Developing Mexico's petroleum -- Potential U.S. markets for Mexico's petroleum -- Security implications for the United States -- Economic benefits to the United States -- Conclusion -- Notes
• Pt. I. Setting the scene -- 2. The first era of Mexican oil : 1876-1938 -- The Mexican oil industry under Díaz : 1876-1911 -- The climate for foreign investment -- The early stages of the Mexican oil industry -- Foreign oil interests and the Mexican Revolution : 1810-20 -- The fall of Díaz -- The Madero regime -- Huerta's dictatorship -- Carranza and the constitution of 1917 -- The expropriation of 1938 -- The Obregón-Calles years : 1920-35 -- Lázaro Cárdenas -- Notes -- 3. The petroleum potential of the Reforma and Campeche oil trends -- Pemex's data and projections -- Geological and geographical characteristics of Southeastern Mexico's oil-bearing structures -- Reforma -- Campeche -- Southeastern Mexico -- Estimates of the average total cost of producing Southeastern Mexico's crude oil -- Characteristics affecting the cost of producing Southeastern Mexico's hydrocarbon reserves -- Estimates of the resource costs of producing Southeastern Mexico's crude oil -- Summary -- Notes -- 4. Pemex -- Background -- Constraints on production -- Pemex's past attitudes toward foreign participation -- Current constraints on Pemex -- Future reliance on foreign participation -- Financial constraints -- Summary -- Notes
• Pt. II. Mexico and the world oil trade -- Introduction -- 5. Markets for Mexico's petroleum -- World oil pricing : Persian Gulf plus freight -- Freight costs -- Mexico's net gain from exporting its crude oil to the United States -- Notes -- 6. Mexico's problems and potential -- The crisis of 1976 and its aftermath -- Mexican politics and Mexico's petroleum -- Special concerns -- Notes -- 7. The benefits to the United States from Mexican petroleum -- National security -- Diversification from political threats -- Geographic diversification -- Economic efficiency -- Reductions in energy expenditures of the United States -- Reduced capital demands -- Improving the U.S. trade balance -- The environment, public health, and public safety -- Policies of the United States -- The Gasoducto -- Coal conversion legislation -- Import policy -- The indifference of the United States -- Notes -- 8. Macroimplications of Mexico's petroleum -- Postponement of doomsday -- Mexican petroleum and the limits of OPEC and Saudi power -- Notes.

ISBN

• 0030484510
• 9780030484513

LCCN

78027095

OCLC

• ocm04515875
• 4515875
• SCSB-140986

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library