Claudia Sheinbaum rules out a supplier strike due to Pemex's accumulated debts.

MEXICO CITY.- This Thursday, during her usual morning press conference, the president of Mexico , Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo , ruled out a possible strike by energy sector suppliers announced this week due to the accumulated debts of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) since the company has already paid 147,000 million pesos.

"It's not going to happen. There's already a mechanism that the Treasury Department has been working on with Pemex to resolve this issue, as well as Pemex's own investment," the president stated in response to this announcement of a strike by companies in the sector starting next July.

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The Mexican president specified that "147 billion pesos of debt to suppliers was paid (this year), meaning it's not like the payments that were due since last year haven't been made."

He also acknowledged that "a portion (of the payment) is still pending" and that "the instruments that have been worked on between the Ministry of Finance—headed by Édgar Abraham Amador Zamora—and Pemex are already in place, so there will be no risk," he added.

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Claudia Sheinbaum's response comes after the Mexican Association of Petroleum Service Companies (Amespac) - one of the main service providers in hydrocarbon exploration and production - sent a statement last Monday to the Secretary of Finance and the Secretary of Energy, Luz Elena González , in which it requests "urgent measures" to avoid the collapse of operations in the national energy sector.

According to Amespac, Pemex's accumulated debts already exceed 404 billion pesos in the first quarter of 2025.

Furthermore, the document published by the Association highlighted that Pemex's budget for exploration and extraction was reduced by 66% compared to the previous year, from 373 billion pesos to 127 billion pesos.

As a result, only 26 of the 59 drilling rigs operated during the first quarter of the year, reflecting a drop in operational capacity.

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According to Amespac, the Charge and Discount Coding System (Copade) has generated more than 50,000 invoice rejections, a situation that has caused the collapse of the payment chain in the sector, with unpaid payments lasting more than 12 months.

Given this situation, the Association proposed the "urgent establishment" of a working group with authorized officials to discuss three key measures, seeking to release the billing for services provided in 2024, ensure timely payment for services in 2025, and design a program to settle historical debts .

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