Eni is testing the ground in Mexico and thinking about future strategic partnerships in the country's upstream sector, taking advantage of the opportunity offered by the official visit of Prime Minister Enrico Letta.
In fact, today the Italian premier and the CEO of Eni, Paolo Scaroni, inaugurated the new headquarters of the oil company in Mexico City, underlining that the presence of the Italian company "is the concrete result of the change of the Constitution launched on 20 December".
Paolo Scaroni then met the President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto.
Eni's delegation, which also included Claudio Descalzi, General Manager of the E&P Division, also had a working meeting with the CEO of the public oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), Emilio Lozoya Austin, to lay the foundations for a possible future collaboration. “Mexico, the gulf in particular, is an almost unexplored mine,” commented Paolo Scaroni. “This morning we met the CEO of Pemex who explained how there is a lot of work to do. They need offshore technology and we already operate in this field both in the American part of the gulf and in Africa”.
Eni's commitment will be possible, and has already been requested for the end of 2014, ahead of schedule: "We thought it would not be possible to operate before 2016 - said Eni's CEO - while today Pemex he indicated closer dates: from April they will choose the blocks and share them with the foreign companies they are identifying now. This – she concluded – means that they intend to work with us since 2014 ”.
