The Mexican energy reform will be the topic of special breakout session at the 2015 United States-Mexico Summit: A View from the Border next month in Juárez, officials said Friday.
The panel discussion, "Mexican Energy Reform and the Implications for the North American Economy," will be the first time the summit includes a presentation in Juárez.
The binational summit will take place Aug. 6-7 at the University of Texas at El Paso campus and at the Centro Cultural Paso del Norte in Juárez. The meeting is a joint endeavor of UTEP and U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, in coordination with the Economic Development Department of Juárez and the Borderplex Alliance.
"On this occasion, the main topic at the binational summit will be analyzing the energy reform of Mexico and its implications, as well as its effects in a regional and global context," said Mario Porras, who is O'Rourke's director of Special Projects in Juárez.
In August, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto signed into law hydrocarbon and electricity reforms opening up Mexico's oil and gas industries to private and foreign investment for the first time in nearly 80 years.
Mexico's Secretary of Energy Pedro Joaquín Coldwell and El Paso businessman Paul Foster, president of Western Refinery, are scheduled to participate in the energy reform discussion in Juárez on Aug. 7, officials said.
"They will discuss the opportunities that the energy reform gives, not only in the area of hydrocarbon, but in the importation and exportation of energy and other services that Mexican businesses can supply to oil companies, particularly the ones established in Texas and New Mexico," said Felipe Galán with the Economic Development Department of Juárez.
U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske and Mexico's head of Economy, Idelfonso Guajardo Villarreal, are among some of the confirmed speakers during the two-day event.
O'Rourke has said this year's event will differ from past conferences because it will focus more on the challenges, opportunities and dynamics of trade, commerce and mobility between the United States and Mexico rather than on border security.
A 10-kilometer run race will wrap up the summit on Aug. 8. The U.S.-Mexico 10K Run will be the first international race held between El Paso and Juárez since Sept. 11, 2001, the day of the terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania.
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The panel discussion, "Mexican Energy Reform and the Implications for the North American Economy," will be the first time the summit includes a presentation in Juárez.
The binational summit will take place Aug. 6-7 at the University of Texas at El Paso campus and at the Centro Cultural Paso del Norte in Juárez. The meeting is a joint endeavor of UTEP and U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, in coordination with the Economic Development Department of Juárez and the Borderplex Alliance.
"On this occasion, the main topic at the binational summit will be analyzing the energy reform of Mexico and its implications, as well as its effects in a regional and global context," said Mario Porras, who is O'Rourke's director of Special Projects in Juárez.
In August, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto signed into law hydrocarbon and electricity reforms opening up Mexico's oil and gas industries to private and foreign investment for the first time in nearly 80 years.
Mexico's Secretary of Energy Pedro Joaquín Coldwell and El Paso businessman Paul Foster, president of Western Refinery, are scheduled to participate in the energy reform discussion in Juárez on Aug. 7, officials said.
"They will discuss the opportunities that the energy reform gives, not only in the area of hydrocarbon, but in the importation and exportation of energy and other services that Mexican businesses can supply to oil companies, particularly the ones established in Texas and New Mexico," said Felipe Galán with the Economic Development Department of Juárez.
U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske and Mexico's head of Economy, Idelfonso Guajardo Villarreal, are among some of the confirmed speakers during the two-day event.
O'Rourke has said this year's event will differ from past conferences because it will focus more on the challenges, opportunities and dynamics of trade, commerce and mobility between the United States and Mexico rather than on border security.
A 10-kilometer run race will wrap up the summit on Aug. 8. The U.S.-Mexico 10K Run will be the first international race held between El Paso and Juárez since Sept. 11, 2001, the day of the terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania.
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