New discoveries made off the eastern coast of Mexico have the potential to produce more than 20,000 barrels of oil per day, the state energy company said. Mexican state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos said it made two oil discoveries in the deep waters of its territory of the Gulf of Mexico and four in the shallow waters, which could combine for a potential production rate of around 22,000 barrels of oil per day. All told, the discoveries contain, at the high end , an estimated 200 million barrels of oil equivalent. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s is moving to draw private investors to the state energy sector after more than 70 years of a monopoly […]