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Pemex Q3 loss narrower despite falling prices, output

Pemex Q3

Pemex Q3 losses of 118.36 billion pesos were less compared to this time last year when the state-run oil company lost 167.5 billion pesos.  Pemex photo.

Pemex Q3: Company posts $6.1 billion net loss

By David Alire Garcia

MEXICO CITY, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Mexico’s state-run oil company Pemex reported a narrower 118.36 billion peso ($6.1 billion) third-quarter net loss on Friday, even as it continues to grapple with low prices and declining crude production.

It marked Pemex’s 16th consecutive quarter in the red, and compared with a loss of 167.5 billion pesos in the same period last year.

“Financially there is still much to be done. However, we have stable finances at the moment and have clear signs that we’re on the right path,” said Juan Pablo Newman, Pemex’s chief financial officer, on a conference call with analysts.

Oil prices for Mexico’s crude oil export mix averaged $38.25 per barrel, down nearby 8 per cent compared to the third quarter last year.

Pemex said the Mexican peso depreciated by about 15 per cent during the quarter, averaging 19.50 pesos per dollar compared to 17.01 pesos during the year-earlier period.

Sales for the July-September period totalled 275 billion pesos, down by about 12 per cent compared to the third quarter last year.

Pemex, struggling to turn around a dozen years of slumping crude oil output, said production averaged 2.138 million barrels per day (b/d) during the quarter, down 5.6 per cent from the same period last year.

Production of light crude oil fell 7.7 per cent while output of super light crude slid 8.6 per cent.

Pemex hit peak crude oil production in 2004 with an average of 3.38 million b/d.

Natural gas production during the quarter fell 13.3 per cent to 4.77 billion cubic feet per day, the company said.

Crude processing was also down during the period, falling by about 20 per cent.

Carlos Murrieta, Pemex’s director of industrial transformation, said the reduced crude runs were due to unscheduled stoppages at the company’s Cadereyta and Madero refineries.

In a bid to attract outside investment and boost crude output in the near term, the company has in recent weeks said it plans to partner with private oil companies in at least five fields, including two onshore areas, two shallow water areas as well as its Trion deep water block in the Gulf of Mexico.

A landmark three-year-old energy overhaul ended Pemex’s monopoly over oil and gas production and permitted the company to enter into its first-ever joint ventures in a bid to reverse flagging crude output.

(Reporting by David Alire Garcia; Editing by Meredith Mazzilli)

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