HOUSTON-Some consider Mexico’s unfolding energy reform a success,having attracted billions of dollars in new investment and nearly 70 companies after welcoming the world’s oil and gas players to its turf. However,success is in the eyes of the beholder. While the country’s energy reform is seen outside of Mexico as a model that others should follow,some Mexican citizens and critics see it as a failure,according to Lourdes Melgar,former deputy secretary of energy for hydrocarbons in Mexico. Politics may be to blame. Problems stem from how the reform was sold by the government and supporters before the reform gained approval in 2013. Selling points-such as saying Mexico would be producing 3 million barrels per day(bbl/d)-sounded good politically but didn’t have a technical basis, said Melgar,now a research affiliate for Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Collective Intelligence.
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