Producer

PEMEX (Petróleos Mexicanos)

HQ MX · Mexico City, Mexicowebsite ↗

Mexican state oil company; emerging petcoke exporter; Olmeca (Dos Bocas) refinery shipped first petcoke cargo Jan/Feb 2024 (2-2.5M t/yr capacity); owns Deer Park TX refinery (from Shell, 2021); planned coker units at Tula and Salina Cruz could add 3-5M t/yr total.

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Goods downstream

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Facilities

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  • Crude Oil Upstream (Mexico)

    45%
  • Refining (Mexico + US Gulf Coast)

    30%
  • Petrochemicals

    15%
  • Financial Structure & Debt

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  • Did you know2023

    PEMEX acquired Shell's Deer Park, Texas refinery (340,000 bpd capacity) in 2021 — giving Mexico's state oil company direct ownership of a major US Gulf Coast refinery on the Houston Ship Channel. This makes PEMEX one of the few foreign state-owned enterprises operating a significant US petroleum processing facility. Deer Park processes heavy crude (including PEMEX Maya crude), generating both refined products for the US market and fuel-grade petroleum coke. A financially distressed Mexican state company — carrying ~$108B in debt and relying on ~$12-15B/year in government transfers — owns and operates a critical US Gulf Coast refining asset that previously belonged to one of the world's largest private oil companies.

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  • Capacity2023

    PEMEX carries approximately $108 billion in total debt — making it one of the most indebted companies in the world and effectively a quasi-sovereign obligation of Mexico. The Mexican government transfers approximately $12-15 billion annually to keep PEMEX operationally solvent. PEMEX bond yields trade as a proxy for Mexico's sovereign risk; a PEMEX restructuring or default would constitute a de facto partial sovereign default and would likely trigger contagion across Mexican financial markets. The Mexican petroleum sector's financial distress is thus a systemic risk embedded in the global bond markets that hold PEMEX securities — an oil company's balance sheet as a national financial crisis waiting mechanism.

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  • Origin2023

    PEMEX was founded in 1938 when President Lázaro Cárdenas nationalized Mexico's oil industry from US and British companies — one of the most significant acts of resource nationalism in Latin American history and a defining moment of Mexican sovereignty. For decades PEMEX was the primary source of Mexican federal government revenue, funding much of Mexico's public spending. Production peaked at ~3.4 million bpd in 2004 and has declined continuously since, while the Mexican government simultaneously extracted maximum dividends — leaving PEMEX with ~$108B in debt and severe underinvestment. The nationalization that defined Mexican sovereignty now threatens Mexico's fiscal stability.

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