"Mexico, which has been struggling to boost its oil and natural gas production, might have a big new international partner soon, as this item from Bloomberg News (quoting a Mexican newspaper) inndicates:

Royal Dutch Shell Plc wants to develop shale gas projects in northern Mexico with Petroleos Mexicanos, the country’s oil and gas monopoly, the Reforma newspaper reported. ..."

http://blogs.star-telegram.com/barnett_shale/2010/11/shell-after-sh...

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