FACTBOX-Mexico energy reform debate

April 4 (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.

Compiled from Reuters stories, Mexican newspaper reports, television and radio.

** President Felipe Calderon said at the Afrolac energy conference in Cancun, Mexico, that the outlook for Mexico's flagging oil industry was too grim for political bickering to stand in the way of an oil industry reform.

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** Senators from the ruling National Action Party will have a draft oil reform proposal ready next week with clauses to encourage deepwater drilling on the U.S. maritime border, Sen. Ruben Camarillo, the PAN's point man on oil reform and a Senate energy committee secretary, said. He told Reuters the party was also seriously considering measures to allow state oil monopoly Pemex to partner with other state firms in deep-sea oil.

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** Pemex Exploration and Production chief Carlos Morales tells Reuters that watering down an oil reform proposal to exclude private-sector oil partnerships would "cripple" it and says it will take Mexico twice as long to tap potential deep-sea oil fields without foreign partners.

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** Mexican Central Bank Governor Guillermo Ortiz says during a banking convention in the resort of Acapulco that failure to pass an oil sector reform will hurt Mexico's public finances and worsen the current account deficit.