Mexican President Lopez Obrador has pledged to revive the country’s upstream
Mexico boosts upstream spending
Regime commits further capital to reverse waning crude production
The federal Mexican government will raise its financial backing of Pemex, the state-owned oil and gas firm, significantly next year as it continues to eschew private investment. The Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador administration says it will allocate around $27bn to Pemex’s total budget for 2020—an increase of 8.8pc over the approved financial plan for 2019. In July, the company issued its Business Plan 2019-23 which pledged in 2020 to apportion around $14bn to E&P and c.$3bn for a new refinery to be built in the president’s home state of Tabasco. “In addition to the increase in resources, [Mexican finance minister] Arturo Herrera announced additional support for MXN$86bn ($4.41bn), of which
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