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Mizuno says . “ In that case , we have to make better decisions with the information or the data that we have . That ’ s where technology plays a major role , because it can streamline our operations and create a better more profitable and safer environment .”

Brief set , what did the technology landscape look like when Becerra Mizuno arrived in September 2016 ?

“ I found that Pemex had a large amount of technology infrastructure . They own it , they develop it , they construct it , they deploy it . Everything was done in-house . I said to myself , we need to change .”

Much of this sprawling infrastructure owes its existence to a self-built telco network , the second private largest in the whole country , which includes 130,000 phone lines and 10 data centres . Pemex was founded nine years before Mexico ’ s national telecoms company Telmex , and hence had to build its own communications capability from scratch . There was a time when people who worked for Pemex had two telephones at home : one from Pemex and the other one from Telmex .

“ They got used to building their own technology infrastructure from the bottom up ,” Becerra Mizuno says , “ and they used to do it extremely well . But the world changed , and there are people that can do it better , because they specialise on that .”

Privatisation of these telco assets has proven vital in simplifying

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