FACTBOX-Mexico energy reform debate

April 1 (Reuters) - Latest developments as Mexico's ruling conservatives court PRI and PRD opposition lawmakers to agree on an energy reform proposal aimed at revitalizing the country's flagging oil industry.

Snippets compiled from Reuters stories, Mexican newspaper reports, television and radio.

** Business leaders urge Mexico not to give in to "blackmail" over a planned oil reform, as the left ramps up street protests and the government goes back to the drawing board with a 22-page diagnosis of the industry's troubles to use a basis for multi-party discussions this week.

** Lawmakers from President Felipe Calderon's National Action Party, or PAN, say they are now focusing on getting a consensus on oil reform, not on a target date for a bill.

** Energy Ministry Undersecretary Jordy Herrera says there is no time left to present an energy reform proposal in this congressional session.

** Opposition lawmaker Manlio Beltrones, the Institutional Revolutionary Party's (PRI) president in the Senate, says Calderon should take the responsibility of submitting a reform proposal, not toss the issue back to lawmakers.

** Left-wing lawmakers say the talks should start properly from scratch and bring in independent industry experts and academics. More radical leftists plan to block roads, public buildings, airports and oil installations starting this week, their firebrand leader, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, says.

** State-owned oil monopoly Pemex hires Texas company TDI-Brooks to help it search for deepwater oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico. The need for allowing risk-sharing contracts with foreign partners in deepwater oil is the most controversial part of the PAN's oil reform proposals. (Reporting by Catherine Bremer)