The Energy Reform will overcome the challenges of the oil industry in technology and investment, with new participants in an open market, to detonate an injection of more than 60 billion dollars annually resources.
At the same time, the reform aims to strengthen the competitiveness of Pemex to also include a reform of its governance, its taxation system, its internal control mechanisms, their salaries and compensation system and its procurement scheme.
So said the director general of Pemex, Emilio Lozoya Austin, to participate in the ninth edition of the Mexican Petroleum Congress. The constitutional reform promoted by President Enrique Pena Nieto, said, responding to new circumstances and challenges of the global industry. "Pemex shall become and be competitive, as Production Company of the State".
Petroleos Mexicanos is on the threshold of a new stage in its history and one of the key factors is the talent and professionalism of its staff, which forms the backbone of the industry, and have allowed us to address the various challenges have presented over 76 years, he said.
After affirming that the challenge for the future will be both quantitative and qualitative, Lozoya said Pemex and the industry in general require increasingly specialized professionals, as well as fields of specialization will multiply as the industry diversifies the types of deposits and technologies used for exploitation.
The Congress was opened by the Secretary of Energy, Pedro Joaquin Coldwell, who said the new energy model promoted by the government of the Republic is comprehensive and covers all areas of the industry, for the benefit of society as a whole. He said that Mexico is in the beginning of the transformation that has experienced increased national industry for over 70 years.
The owner of Sener said that the Energy Reform seeks to add individual investments that do not involve threats to the national economy, but instead represent new productive opportunities, well-paying jobs, increased oil revenues and development of new regions in the utilization energies.
Pemex said Joaquin Coldwell strengthens and modernizes based on greater autonomy and better fiscal conditions allow you to associate and compete with new players. He stressed that the reform proposed opening individuals throughout the value chain.
For his part, the director general of Pemex Exploration and Production, and Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Mexican Petroleum Congress, Gustavo Hernandez, said that the Energy Reform represents more than a change of laws, as it involves the transformation that Mexico requires. It is time to look to the future with a clear objective: to build a modern country that can leave behind historical lags.
Oil of Mexico, he said, recognize that reform will change and shows processing capacity for modernization. In Pemex declare ourselves ready for the challenge involved and detonate grow our oil industry, he said.
