Mexico’s National Hydrocarbons Commission lowered the country’s estimates for proven oil reserves and state-run Petroleos Mexicanos cut its 2015 production forecast after crude prices collapsed and its budget was reduced. Pemex cut its 2015 output forecast by more than 100,000 barrels to 2.288 millon barrels a day, Gustavo Hernandez, exploration and production director, said Thursday at a builders congress in Mexico City. Mexico’s proven oil reserves slid 3.1 percent to 13.02 billion barrels from a year earlier, Hydrocarbons Commissioner Juan Carlos Zepeda said Thursday in an interview at Bloomberg’s Mexico City offices. Pemex’s failure to boost reserves and drilling activity shows that opening the oil industry to outsiders is needed, Zepeda said. Mexico is opening its energy industry to foreign producers for the first time since 1938. Pemex drilled 120 wells in the fourth quarter, 36 percent less than a year earlier. “These numbers are distant from […]