INSIGHT-Oil shock to tilt Mexico energy opening in private sector's favor
December 19, 2014 at 12:41 PM EST
By David Alire Garcia and Dave Graham MEXICO CITY, Dec 19 (Reuters) - The allure of investing in Mexico's historic oil sector opening has been dimmed by the plummeting price of crude, putting pressure on the government to offer bigger incentives to private investors in the first major round of contracts up for grabs. Since Congress in August approved the laws governing the dissolution of Mexico's 75-year-old state oil monopoly, crude prices have plunged more than 40 percent, reducing the