Mexico Metropolis. Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) “is at its finest,” mentioned President Andrés Manuel López Obrador; and he maintained that in his six-year time period the “feat” of rescuing the state-owned firm was achieved.
On the morning press convention on Friday, a report was introduced on the rescue of this productive firm of the Mexican State, by its head, Octavio Romero Oropeza, who detailed, for instance, that firstly of the administration, 304 thousand barrels of gasoline had been produced within the nation and by September of this 12 months —when the Tabasco native’s time period ends— the determine will attain 1 million 268 thousand.
The opposition “are propagandists, always speaking about Pemex being at its worst, and the identical with the Federal Electrical energy Fee, that’s completely false, it isn’t true. Pemex has been rescued as a public firm, as an organization of all Mexicans, a feat that was achieved, the identical with the CFE. Individuals at all times say that Pemex is in a really unhealthy state, our adversaries are consultants in misinformation, they dedicate themselves to that, when in actuality Pemex is at its finest, it may be mentioned that Pemex was rescued,” the federal president emphasised.
He recalled that in the course of the neoliberal regimes, the disappearance of Pemex and CFE was sought with the so-called vitality reform, “which was a deception,” since of the 110 contracts for oil exploitation that had been awarded, solely three are in operation, as a result of the enterprise was to promote the concessions of the territory.
Additionally they mentioned that personal firms would produce 3 million barrels a day, and presently they solely extract 40 thousand a day.
Opposite to this, he careworn, with the coverage undertaken by his administration within the discipline of vitality, uncooked supplies and crude oil are now not bought overseas, however quite they’ve targeted on the manufacturing of fuels (gasoline, diesel, jet gasoline).
He careworn that because of this, Mexico now produces 75 % of the gasoline it consumes and solely buys 25 % from overseas.
“Within the time remaining till the tip of this 12 months, we might be nearly at 100%, that means we is not going to be shopping for gasoline, jet gasoline or diesel from overseas. Isn’t {that a} feat?”
For his half, Romero Oropeza indicated that the coverage of this six-year time period was to rehabilitate the six present refineries, the development of the Olmeca Refinery in Dos Bocas, Tabasco was accomplished and Deer Park was bought.
Thus, manufacturing figures, he mentioned, have been on the rise. In December 2018, firstly of the six-year time period, solely 511 thousand barrels had been processed day by day, and for the January-June 2024 semester, a million 202 thousand had been reached; and by September, when the federal government ends, will probably be a million 702 thousand barrels per day.
He added that with the entry into operation within the coming days of Dos Bocas and the coking plant in Tula, Hidalgo, within the first quarter of 2025 – already with the federal government of the digital president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum – manufacturing will attain 1 million 761 thousand barrels per day.
Within the case of Pemex’s debt, he identified, within the two earlier six-year phrases (Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto) it elevated by 91 %, going from 68.9 billion {dollars} in 2006 to 132 billion {dollars} in 2018.
On this six-year interval, the debt fell by 25 %, to 99 billion {dollars}; that’s, 32.9 million {dollars} much less in debt.
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– 2024-07-22 17:05:42
