The best that Mexico’s state-owned oil company, Pemex, can hope for in the coming years is a slower pace of decline in crude production. Many of its shallow oil fields are maturing and the government seems more intent on ploughing money into a new refinery than exploration and production. We estimate that the oil sector will subtract 0.2-0.3%-pts off GDP growth in the coming years.
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