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The President declared at a press conference that the theft of hydrocarbon barrels has been decreasing significantly since 2019.
According to what he declared, these practices were allowed in PEMEX by not respecting security protocols.
The theft rate has dropped by 90 percent, previously being at more than 80,000 barrels per day.
The President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) shared today at the press conference “La Mañanera” what has been the intention of the creation of the Two Mouths Terminaland with it, signaling that the attention of his Fourth Transformation (4T) It is fundamentally oriented to combat inflation in food and energy, taking extreme measures to steal barrels of hydrocarbons and other problems that afflict the country.
This was what the Mexican president said about the refinery:
“The place that was chosen was the Two Mouths Terminal. Why is it terminal? Because all the oil from the land, Chiapas, Tabasco and Campeche, because all the oil from the coast of Tabasco and Campeche arrives there. One million barrels per day and this port was the one that was used the most and continues to be used for the export of crude oil. So the location there was strategic”.
“All this has been achieved with the efforts of the companies that have completed their daily work. So we are going to leave the country an infrastructure that it did not have in terms of energy. And this is so important that now that we are facing inflation, what inflation hits us the least is energy, because everything that has gone towards food-energy self-sufficiency is what has to have priority, producing in Mexico what we consume”.
Theft of barrels of hydrocarbons has dropped 90 percent since 2018
Clandestine seizures of barrels of hydrocarbons have become one of the most important threats in the country, especially taking into account that more than 80,000 barrels were stolen per day, according to information from the Mexican government, “but it was a tolerated mafia “said the President.
According to what the president said, these practices had been for some time even allowed by the company itself. PEMEX.
“On the third floor, a whole alarm system or monitors where the ducts were supposed to be with sensors, and when the pressure in the ducts dropped, the alarms sounded to avoid the huachicol. Well no! Alarms sounded and did nothing. They could be ringing all day because there was complicity.
Likewise, recounting the damage, the president shares that many of the materials that have been purchased, such as drones, boats and planes, to combat these practices are still useless and some have directly become part of the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena).
The graphs shared by the Government of Mexico indicated that it was at the beginning of 2019 when the flow of the theft of barrels of hydrocarbons fell impressively, since it went from being in monthly indexes of 81 thousand and 74 thousand barrels per day, less than 7 thousand.
At the moment, it was highlighted in the conference that an index of 5.7 thousand against the well-known “huachicol” continues to be fought. Finally, the President of the Republic assured that one of the efforts of his mandate has been to eliminate more points of sale of huachicol in Mexico.
Currently, there are some states that continue to be victims of clandestine hydrocarbon intakes, with the states of Hidalgo, Veracruz and Puebla being some of the states with the highest rate, the last being even declared as the one with the highest number of intakes, with more than a thousand 600
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