Mexico's Energy Resources: Toward a Policy of Diversification

ISBN-13: 9780367019983 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 189 str.

Wionczek, Miguel S.

Opis

Beginning from the premise that Mexico's economic strength will depend largely on its ability to produce, manage, and export energy, energy experts in this book analyze energy planning in Mexico in the 1970s and possible strategies for the future. They focus on the potential for diversifying the country's energy economy--now based almost exclusively on oil--by examining alternative sources, particularly natural gas, coal, and geothermal and solar resources. The extent to which Mexico's energy base is diversified, they assert, will determine the country's ability both to meet internal energy needs and to prolong its export of oil and gas. find, diversification will not only increase Mexico's economic strength, but will also expand the global supply of energy resources and have profound impact on the United States, Mexico's major trading partner.

Spis treści

Current and Future Energy Options for Mexico -- Mexican Economic and Oil Policies of the 1970s and Strategies for the 1980s -- New Energy Sources in Mexico: The Present Situation and Prospects for the Future -- Natural Gas in Mexico -- Coal in Mexico -- Research and Development in Geothermal Energy -- Experiences of the First Mexican Nuclear Plant at Laguna Verde -- The Mexico-Venezuela Oil Agreement of San Jose: A Step Toward Latin American Cooperation -- Oil and Development Plans of the Late Seventies -- Some Reflections on Mexican Energy Policy in Historical Perspective