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MEXICO CITY, Aug 10 (Reuters) - The multibillion-dollar megaproject that Mexico hopes will turn around its slumping oil industry is being questioned by some officials as results fall short, according to a source familiar with the issue.
State oil monopoly Pemex [PEMX.UL] has banked on an $11 billion plan to tap the unconventional Chicontepec crude deposit to shore up output as yields at other fields plummet, sending Mexican oil production to near 20-year lows.
However, Chicontepec was producing only 30,800 barrels per day in June, a modest rise from December. After years of missed targets and with $3.4 billion already sunk into the project by the end of last year, grumbling about its cost is growing.
"They are coming under a lot of pressure because some people in the government are unhappy with the results. They have spent a lot of money and people are wondering why there is not more oil," the source said, echoing private remarks made recently by several government officials.
Et aussi, Calderon, président du Mexique, annonce le lancement d'une initiative de lutte contre le vol de pétrole (ou produits raffinés) :
Calderón announces crackdown on fuel theft during Reynosa visit
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August 07, 2009 5:30 AM
Martha L. Hernandez
La Frontera
REYNOSA — Mexican President Felipe Calderón visited Reynosa on Thursday afternoon and announced an ongoing effort against criminal organizations that have stolen fuel from Pemex for years.
The president was here to mark the opening of two cryogenic plants that will increase Mexico’s gas production — reducing the country’s dependence on Texas.
“We could not avoid a subject which we all knew about,” Calderón said about organized crime. “It was a stone that the whole world took turns with. … Now it’s taking place in Pemex.”
During a tour of the two plants, the president said that since the new operation was launched in April, Pemex’s Burgos Gas Processing Complex has logged a 175 percent increase in the amount of crude oil it receives.
The new facilities bring the complex’s total number of plants to six.
“Why have we permitted others to attribute bad things to all Mexicans?” the president said. “This crude oil is gas for the poorest families of Mexico, because those resources are the schools and the universities that our children need, the hospitals that we need, the roads, the water that the border needs. They’re all resources for Mexicans, and we shouldn’t have to cross our arms and look away, because this is our national patrimony and we need to defend it.”
According to the Mexican military, the navy, the federal police and the attorney general, the regions in which the most illicit activity occurs are Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Nuevo León and Mexico City, where officials have detected more than 400 fuel thefts.
“The time has come to stop milking Pemex through the theft of fuel,” the president said.
Reynosa was the second city in Tamaulipas that the president visited Thursday — he made a prior stop in Altamira.
With the opening of the two new plants, Pemex will process will process 21 percent of the gasoline Mexico produces.
Calderón reminded his audience that when he was secretary of energy six years ago, his biggest challenge was lowering the gas deficit and reducing the amount of imported fuel from the United States — namely, from Texas.
The new plants feature technology that produces less pollution. Calderón said any action to help protect the environment will ultimately be less costly than dealing with the irreversible damage to the planet if no such action is taken.
The president landed in a helicopter at the complex’s helipad, escorted by three more helicopters. Calderón toured the plants in a truck alongside Georgina Kessel Martinez, Mexico’s secretary of energy; Eugenio Hernandez Flores, governor of Tamaulipas; Jesus Reyes Heroles, director of Pemex; and Carlos Romero Deschamps, leader of the Petroleum Workers Union.
http://www.themonitor.com/articles/reyn ... unces.html
