MOSCOW (MRC) -- India’s Reliance Industries has signed a memorandum of understanding with Mexico’s Pemex to jointly assess the potential for upstream oil and gas business in Mexico and other international markets, said Upstreamonline.
Reliance and Pemex will share their expertise and skills to further strengthen the relationship between the two players.
Environmental and social responsibility will be on the agenda for the players, as well as best practise techniques in deep-water development and shale gas.
Reliance said this collaboration with Pemex was part of the company’s growth strategy to expand its global footprint.
As MRC wrote before, Mexico's state run Pemex approved a post-reform corporate revamp- finalizing a corporate restructuring including the creation of new business units that will focus on fertilizers and ethylene.
Pemex, Mexican Petroleum, is a Mexican state-owned petroleum company. Pemex has a total asset worth of USD415.75 billion, and is the world's second largest non-publicly listed company by total market value, and Latin America's second largest enterprise by annual revenue as of 2009. Company produces such polymers, as polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene.
Reliance Industries is one of the world's largest producers of polymers. The company's polymer production in 2010-11 (polypropylene, polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride) made 4,094 kilo tonnes.
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