Posted on 12/04/2015 4:23:55 AM PST by thackney
Mexico’s national oil company launched its first gasoline station outside of the country’s borders on Thursday in Houston, the first of several stations planned for the city.
After Mexico opened its borders to foreign investment in the country’s oil fields in 2014, state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos, know as Pemex, has started to test its brand strength by competing in the U.S., with that effort beginning in Houston, said José Manuel Carrera Panizzo, the company’s chief of alliances and new business development.
“We want to be put to the toughest test,†Carrera said of the competitive Texas gasoline market. “We’re trying to bring Mexico closer to American consumers.â€
“In terms of historic importance, it’s the first time Pemex puts a gas station outside the Mexican borders,†he said. “We’re very excited.â€
Carrera said Pemex is initially opening just five U.S. stations as a pilot test for the brand, but may eventually expand further. The other four gas station openings are all in the Houston area — three in Southeast Houston and one in West Houston.
The first gas station that opened Thursday is on the 7900 block of Park Place Boulevard. Carrera said Pemex is specifically marketing to Mexican nationals and Hispanic consumers.
The gas station includes a taco shack in the convenience store, but the gasoline is U.S.-produced and all the other convenience store items are standard American fare.
So now Texans can buy gas from the Gulf of Mexico that we are prohibited from drilling?
???
We still drill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Does that Russian outfit still have stations in Jersey?
Smart move on their part. My guess is, the Mexicans living in Houston will think it is their patriotic duty to buy Mexican. Success in Houston will mean Pemex stations from Beaumont to San Francisco.
I wonder if Pemex Houston will have brown-shirted attendants that will aggressively attempt to shortchange the customer, just like they do in Puerto Vallarta? :-)
Currently there are 30 drilling rigs operating in the US side of the Gulf of Mexico.
Counts by state and historical
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=79687&p=irol-reportsother
Interactive Drilling map of rigs drilling currently
http://gis.bakerhughesdirect.com/RigCounts/default2.aspx
Good info, thanks.
Rather buy here than Venezuelan Citgo.
I had similar thoughts.
I would never put Pemex gas in my vehicle.
Years ago I would cross over into Mexico and get gas real cheap but you always had to put a fuel additive in your tank or else your injectors would become clogged.
Pemex in Houston will be gasoline refined in the US, and not at a Pemex refinery.
They’ll charge by the liter—$150 a gallon. lol. yes, lol.
In pesos.
Our prices in the area are dropping that low, and lower.
http://www.houstongasprices.com/
http://www.texasgasprices.com/
As far as I know, Mexico doesn’t still allow foreign owned gas stations there, so why should we allow Pemex?
They are great at assimilating.
They rebranded a couple of years ago. They’re now known as “Valeo”.
CC
Correction: It’s spelled “valero”. Just citgo with a new name.
CC
I avoid buying anything from Mexico. Used to love Thomas English muffins, for example, but I quit buying them after I found out they had been bought by a Mexican company, Bimbo Bakery.
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