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Subject:The Pemex Natural Gas Price Hedge: Market Savior Or Monopolistic
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Date:Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:51:00 -0800 (PST)

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Strategy? - CERA Insight


Mexico Energy Service Insight=01*Pemex Natural Gas Price Hedging Plan

Pemex has offered Mexican industrials a new hedging plan to mitigate the=20
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of high natural gas prices. The hedge consists of a three-year take-or-pay=
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contract with Pemex that will fix the price of natural gas at $4.00 per=20
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The hedge will provide industry short-term price relief and will increase=
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awareness of hedging instruments in Mexico.

However, implementing this price-hedging scheme will have many significant=
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ramifications for the Mexican natural gas market. It will

* raise questions about future government intervention when prices fall

* affect future market development

* possibly reduce incentives to increase production in Mexico

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