Title: "Multiscale relational analysis of the oil and gas sector of Mexico: a helpful quantitative storytelling for the Mexican energy reform debate"

Lecturer: Rafael González López
Moderator: Samuele Lo Piano

​Date: Wednesday, March 22nd 2017
Time: 12.30h
Venue: Room Z/022

Rafael questions the proposals from the Mexican energy reform with a biophysical analysis and quantitative storytelling. In this reform the oil & gas market is opened after 72 years of being regulated by the Mexican state oil company PEMEX (3rd nationalized oil company, after the ex-Soviet Union and Bolivia). He provides a comprehensive energy analysis of the oil and gas sector of Mexico, using a novel approach based on MuSIASEM and the integration of relational analysis (Rosen, 1958).

This methodology characterizes the pattern of end-uses of energy carriers across the different functional and structural elements of society.  In this way, we obtain insight in the complex metabolic pathways associated with the different functions expressed by society and the effects that changes in the metabolic characteristics of the energy sector will have on those or other compartments and in the energy sovereignty.

This methodology characterizes the pattern of end-uses of energy carriers across the different functional and structural elements of society.  In this way, we obtain insight in the complex metabolic pathways associated with the different functions expressed by society and the effects that changes in the metabolic characteristics of the energy sector will have on those or other compartments and in the energy sovereignty.

Bio
Rafael is a PhD candidate at ICTA. His current work focuses on the characterization of the oil and gas sector of Mexico. Furthermore, He is collaborating in the study of the nexus between charcoal, food and water in the tropics, as well as in the analysis of the primary energy sector of Brazil. He has a bachelor degree in Biology and a master degree in Geography from UNAM.