据路透社2月22日墨西哥城报道，墨西哥国家石油公司（Pemex）周五表示，该公司1月份每天生产原油162万桶，低于近三十年的任何一个月，这凸显了政府誓言要在几年内开采更多原油所面临的挑战。

该公司本月的原油产量至少是自1990年Pemex开始公开记录以来的最低水平。

自2004年达到340万桶/天的峰值以来，该公司的原油产量已经连续14年下降，因为墨西哥最多产的油田已经枯竭，而且还没有找到新的油田来替代它们。

Pemex的原油产量在2018年平均为每天181万桶。

该公司1月原油出口量也下降至107万桶/天，较2018年平均118万桶/天下降近10%。

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador于去年12月上任，并承诺加强这家长期以来一直境况不佳的国宝公司，并表示他将在2024年的六年任期结束时将其产量增加到约250万桶/天。

Lopez Obrador尚未完全概述Pemex如何能够扭转长期存在的下滑趋势，但除了向政府注入新的资本和降低税收之外，他确实在今年为该公司增加了更大的预算。

这位资深左翼人士取消了向私营和外国石油公司开放的石油和天然气拍卖，并表示他不会允许Pemex与其他公司建立任何额外的短期合资关系。。

这两种策略都是墨西哥前政府努力通过Pemex以及美国石油巨头埃克森美孚和法国道达尔等新进入市场的公司来提高墨西哥石油产量的关键。

李方征 编译自 路透社

原文如下：

Mexico's Pemex crude output lowest since records began

Mexico’s Pemex produced 1.62 million barrels of crude per day in January, less than any month in almost three decades, the state-owned oil company said on Friday, underscoring the challenges facing a government that vows to pump far more in a few years.

The company’s crude output for the month was the lowest since at least 1990, when Pemex’s publicly available records begin.

The firm’s crude oil output has declined for 14 consecutive years since hitting a peak of 3.4 million bpd in 2004, as Mexico’s most prolific fields have dried up and new ones to replace them have not been discovered.

Pemex’s crude production averaged 1.81 million bpd in 2018.

The company’s crude oil exports also fell in January to total 1.07 million bpd, down nearly 10 percent from 2018 average shipments of 1.18 million bpd.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who took office in December and ran on a promise of strengthening the ailing company, long a national treasure, has said he will grow its output to around 2.5 million bpd by the end of his six-year term in 2024.

Lopez Obrador has yet to fully outline how Pemex alone will be able to reverse the long-standing slide, but he did push through a larger budget for the company this year, in addition to a fresh capital injection from the government and lower tax bill.

The veteran leftist has canceled oil and gas auctions open to private and foreign oil companies and he has said he will not allow Pemex to enter into any additional near-term joint venture partnerships with other firms.

Both strategies were linchpins of the previous government’s efforts to grow oil output in Mexico from both Pemex’s operations as well as those of new entrants into the market like U.S.-based major Exxon Mobil and France’s Total .