Mexico’s national oil company plans a wave of new asset sales and production partnerships to navigate through the oil price downturn and stabilize soaring debt and falling production levels, its chief executive officer said. Petroleos Mexicanos [PEMX.UL], known as Pemex, is undergoing sweeping reforms after which CEO Jose Antonio Gonzalez Anaya hopes it will emerge as one of the industry’s leading national companies such as Norway’s Statoil. Gonzalez Anaya, 48, took over the Pemex leadership in February as it struggled with a deep rout that took oil to a near 13-year low. He has since accelerated a reform plan he said will be achieved through asset sales and joint ventures with foreign oil companies. Before that however, Pemex’s production is expected to decline in 2017 from this year’s levels of 2.13 […]