The sale will be Mexico’s biggest, in terms of fields and expected investment, since Pemex’s monopoly ended in 2013. (Bloomberg) — If you’re a super-major oil explorer, Mexico says it’s got a bargain for you. The once-giant crude nation whose output plunged in the past decade is enticing the world’s richest explorers with cut-rate prices for drilling rights to its most coveted offshore fields. The Jan. 31 auction for access to 29 deep-water tracts comes as $70-a-barrel crude lifts foreign drillers from the worst market slump in decades. Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Chevron Corp. are among the 21 entrants registered to bid next week, the National Hydrocarbons Commission, known as CNH, announced Thursday in a webcast. The sale will be Mexico’s biggest, in terms of fields and expected investment, since government-controlled Petroleos Mexicanos’s monopoly ended in 2013. Mexico’s demand for low upfront bonus payments probably […]