{"id":15962,"date":"2018-07-24T11:41:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T16:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/?p=15962"},"modified":"2018-07-24T11:41:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T16:41:52","slug":"first-phillips-66-sites-open-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/first-phillips-66-sites-open-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"First Phillips 66 Sites Open in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cspdailynews.com\/fuels-news-prices-analysis\/fuels-news\/articles\/first-phillips-66-sites-open-mexico\">CSP Daily News \/ July 23\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>EL PASO, Texas &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>Phillips 66 is opening its first retail sites in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The Houston-based refiner, which owns the Phillips 66, 76 and Conoco brands, has a licensing agreement with fuel distributor Windstar LPG to open and operate branded sites in eight northern Mexican states,\u00a0according to Arizona Public Media (AZPM). The first locations\u2014three 76 branded sites\u2014opened in Hermosillo, Sonora, on July 12. Another site was opening soon after in Chihuahua.<\/p>\n<p>Reynold Gonzalez, CFO for El Paso, Texas-based Windstar, told AZPM that the company has &#8220;aggressive plans&#8221; for expanding in Mexico, with 25 to 30 branded locations slated for Sonora by the end of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips 66 follows other U.S. and international refiners in entering the newly deregulated fuel market in Mexico, including\u00a0ExxonMobil,\u00a0Shell,\u00a0Andeavor\u00a0and\u00a0BP.<\/p>\n<p>Some industry observers have questioned whether Mexico\u2019s new president-elect, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, might reverse the energy reforms launched in 2013 by his predecessor, Enrique Pena Nieto, which included opening up the fuel market to foreign companies. Lopez Obrador said he would review the reforms if he discovered corruption in how contracts were awarded,\u00a0Reuters reported; however, he has not announced any plans for rollbacks since winning the election in July.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez of Windstar told AZPM that his company would not be opening locations in Mexico if it was concerned about a rollback, and that he believes U.S. competitors could help improve the quality of gasoline for fuel customers in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are an example of a positive result of the energy reform act,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cspdailynews.com\/fuels-news-prices-analysis\/fuels-news\/articles\/first-phillips-66-sites-open-mexico\">CSP Daily News \/ July 23\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15967 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/First-Phillips-66-Sites-Open-in-Mexico-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/First-Phillips-66-Sites-Open-in-Mexico-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/First-Phillips-66-Sites-Open-in-Mexico-450x300.png 450w, https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/First-Phillips-66-Sites-Open-in-Mexico.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSP Daily News \/ July 23\u00a0 &nbsp; EL PASO, Texas &#8212;\u00a0Phillips 66 is opening its first retail sites in Mexico. The Houston-based refiner, which owns the Phillips 66, 76 and Conoco brands, has a licensing agreement with fuel distributor Windstar LPG to open and operate branded sites in eight northern Mexican states,\u00a0according to Arizona Public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":15967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1474,1017,1475],"tags":[1791,1790,717,1597],"class_list":["post-15962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mexicos-energy-reform","category-news","category-oil-gas","tag-contracts","tag-fuel-market","tag-gasoline","tag-mexicos-energy-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}