ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the frame of reference for the policies and activities designed to encourage local job training in petroleum technology, the nature of these policies and activities, their evolution, and their results. It deals with those policies promoting basic research and technological development, the local capital goods sector, and engineering firms. For the first time in Mexico the integration of a consulting, engineering, research, and development agency with a production company had produced results and raised the technological capacity of one of the economy's most strategic subsectors. The limited size of the domestic market and the high cost of technology makes it unlikely that Mexico could ever produce technologically sophisticated equipment at prices low enough to compete on the international market. Efforts to standardize raw materials, parts, components, substances, and equipment will be made, and basic and detailed technology transfer will be negotiated.
