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Mexico aims to boost crude output by 45% before 2025

Mexican President detailed plans to rescue the national oil industry.

Mexico aims to boost crude output by 45% before 2025


Mexico City, December 18 - Neftegaz.RU.  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador detailed plans Sunday to rescue the national oil industry by boosting crude production at the state-owned oil company by 45 % before 2025.

 

Lopez Obrador said the goal is for Petroleos Mexicanos to raise crude output to 2.4 million barrels per day, from the current 1.65 million barrels per day. We are going to invest where we know there's petroleum and where it costs us less to extract it, he told a jubilant crowd of oil workers.

 

The Mexican president  previously announced plans to invest $3.65 billion of savings from a government austerity program into Pemex. The company has struggled to come up with funds in recent years amid mounting pension obligations, high tax rates, rampant fuel theft and inefficiencies.

The president shared an anecdote about once chatting with a man on a plane to Ciudad del Carmen who was delivering a $1 million watch to a customer in the city, suggesting that the watch was a symbol of corruption and theft in the oil industry. This is why the country is sinking, he said, vowing to root out pilfering of the state entity.

 

Lopez Obrador described his plan to rescue the oil industry as realistic and reiterated a pledge to move Pemex's headquarters from the capital to Ciudad del Carmen.

 


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