Petroleos Mexicanos’s financial woes continue to mount as the country’s biggest company reported a $9.3 billion loss in the fourth quarter and laid out plans for deep spending cuts this year.
Pemex lost about $32 billion in all of 2015 as oil prices plunged and the company’s crude output fell for an 11th straight year, according to a financial report released Monday. Pemex hasn’t recorded a profit since 2012. The company had more than $87 billion in debt at the conclusion of the third quarter and owes an estimated $7 billion to service providers.
Earlier Monday, Pemex pledged to meet the government’s request that it trim its 2016 budget by 100 billion pesos ($5.5 billion). Pemex will cut as much as $3.6 billion in spending by delaying projects, including expensive offshore wells, Jose Antonio Gonzalez Anaya, the company’s CEO, said in a conference call with investors. Pemex will pursue partners for any future deepwater development, Gonzalez Anaya said.
Brazil Energy Insight 
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