New Pemex chief executive Jose Antonio Gonzalez Anaya has emphasised plans to work with other players as the state-led oil giant looks to prioritise investments and improve operational efficiencies, despite impending new budget cuts.

Gonzalez, the Harvard-educated economist who most recently led Mexico’s social security agency, took the stage at IHS CeraWeek just two weeks into the job.

Pemex is facing a 100 billion peso ($5.5