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Pemex Losses Deepen in Third Quarter

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Last updated: 2024/10/30 at 10:40 PM
Editorial Team 8 months ago
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Petroleos Mexicanos’ loss doubled within the third quarter amid slumping gross sales, foreign money fluctuations and different components, a destructive signal for Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s hand-picked govt management workforce.

Pemex’s loss widened to 161.3 billion pesos ($8.1 billion) from 79.1 billion a 12 months earlier, the corporate reported Tuesday. The explorer’s crude and condensate output fell by nearly 5% in contrast with a 12 months earlier and has been dropping because the begin of 2024. Internet debt stood at $97.3 billion, the corporate mentioned.

The outcomes are the primary below the management of Chief Government Officer Victor Rodriguez, a former educational appointed by Sheinbaum to rescue the world’s most-indebted main oil producer. Except for practically $100 billion in debt, the corporate’s woes embrace abysmal security and environmental information, a bloated workforce, inefficient offshore platforms and refineries that bleed money.

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Pemex’s Francisco I. Madero oil refinery alongside the Panuco River in Veracruz state.

Earlier this month, Mexico’s Senate authorized a invoice that reclassifies state-controlled vitality giants as “public firms,” giving the federal government extra management and not requiring them to show earnings. That could also be key in serving to Sheinbaum ship on guarantees to repair Pemex’s funds and assist shore up one of many crown jewels of the Mexican economic system.

“Pemex’s reclassification as a public firm received’t restrict partnerships with the personal sector,” Rodriguez mentioned throughout a convention with analysts on Tuesday. “Non-public funding will likely be notably welcomed, particularly in co-generation and clear vitality tasks.”

Pemex is presently working with Mexico’s Finance and Power ministries on an answer to its debt burden, Chief Monetary Officer Juan Carlos Carpio mentioned in the course of the name. Particulars of a liability-management plan will likely be launched after Sheinbaum’s administration publishes its 2025 finances, and the corporate expects the federal government subsequent 12 months to increase monetary help just like 2024’s quantity, in response to Carpio. The driller isn’t presently contemplating any new debt issuance, he famous.

Pemex’s woes lengthen nicely past its steadiness sheet. Manufacturing has slid to about half the height of twenty years in the past, and the corporate’s growing old refineries — most of which have been constructed within the Twenties and Thirties — are cash losers. Regardless of Former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s repeated guarantees that Mexico would produce all of the gas it consumes by the tip of his time period, it nonetheless imports greater than half its gasoline provide.

Dos Bocas, the corporate’s flagship refinery in Tabasco state, solely processed crude at 25 % of capability in August, processed zero barrels within the first half of October due to technical points, and went offline fully final week.

Lopez Obrador dumped as much as $80 billion into the corporate by way of capital injections and tax breaks over his six-year time period. However little, if something, improved, underscoring simply how a lot of a drag Pemex’s inefficiency has grow to be on the nation’s backside line.

There’s additionally been a raft of oil spills, methane leaks, and security issues in recent times, together with an incident earlier this month at a Texas refinery wherein two folks died. The corporate had 9 employee fatalities in 2022, in response to the newest information out there to Bloomberg.

That has sparked many traders to name for change, main the corporate to publish its first ever environmental, social and governance plan earlier this 12 months.

Sheinbaum has promised to maintain each day oil manufacturing round 1.8 million barrels in coming years, utilizing renewable vitality sources to satisfy Mexico’s rising electrical energy demand. She is aiming to make Mexican refineries extra environment friendly, cut back gas imports and develop Pemex’s mandate to incorporate new ventures like lithium extraction and electric-vehicle infrastructure.




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