Pemex's most advanced deepwater project is the multi-billion-dollar Trion project,
operated by BHP Group.
Paraíso, or“paradise,”
is the Tabasco town where Barrera grew up and worked at a Pemex port.
Paraiso, or“paradise,”
is the Tabasco town where Barrera grew up and worked at a Pemex port.
Under Lopez Obrador, Pemex has promised to develop shallow water
and onshore projects where it has the technical expertise.
Pemex, which has not publicized the deepwater drilling plan, did
not respond to requests for comment for this story.
Pemex has to be cleaned up,
because if not, we're not going to have a top-flight company," he said.
Those familiar with the industry say it makes sense that criminals, not just victims,
could emerge from the Pemex payroll.
We are a family," they wrote in the letter,"dedicated to its work for Pemex at Dos Bocas," the port.
We are now prosecuting the case of three top Pemex officials… who were in charge of pipeline management,” Gertz said.
Barrera himself, after brushes with extortionists and kidnappers who may have once been Pemex colleagues, recently sought asylum in Canada.
During a recent interview, Carlos Trevino, Pemex's chief executive, conceded that
employees are increasingly at risk because of their jobs and pay.
Earlier this year, Reuters reported how fuel thieves are crippling Mexico's refineries and
unleashing bloodshed in formerly calm centers of Pemex operations.
Earlier this year, Reuters reported how fuel thieves are crippling Mexico's refineries and
unleashing bloodshed in formerly calm centres of Pemex operations.
The venture pre-dates Lopez Obrador's administration, which has canceled auctions designed to bring in private oil companies to work alongside Pemex.
The government has shut off key pipelines
until they can be fully secured and deployed the army to guard Pemex production facilities.
He married a fellow Pemex auditor, bought two cars
and enjoyed regular seafood outings with his wife, their daughter and two stepsons.
Current and former Pemex workers are at both ends of the crimes-
some as victims but others as instigators, participants or informants.
Pemex needs to perform a little bit better
… We must be moving in that direction like many(national oil companies) have done.”.
A colleague told Barrera's wife, who still works at Pemex, that suspicious men had been asking about her outside the office gates.
Lopez Obrador's government has shut off key
pipelines until they can be fully secured and deployed the army to guard Pemex production facilities.
Pemex controls the majority of hydrocarbon reserves in Mexico
although the sector has been open to foreign investment for the past four years.
Lopez Obrador's government has shut off key pipelines
until they can be fully secured, and has deployed the army to guard Pemex production facilities.
Urzua had harsh words for Pemex, saying it was neither competitive
nor productive enough and adding that its trade union is"an icon of corruption.".
Pemex has posted losses in its refining division for years
but Lopez Obrador aims to boost crude processing enough to halt imports within three years.
Pemex has yet to produce oil from deepwater projects on its side
of the Gulf of Mexico despite more than a dozen years of exploring.
In Tabasco, Pemex let go 1,857 workers, or roughly 12 percent of
the 16,000 jobs the state shed between 2014 and 2016, according to government data.
Now they want the government to restart the auctions initiated under a 2013-2014 energy opening, including those to select partners for
state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos(Pemex).
Speaking at an oil conference in London,
Carlos Trevino pointed to a call by the head of Mexico's National Hydrocarbons Commission to float a minority stake in Pemex.
Once the CNH confirms the shared nature of the reservoir,
SENER would then instruct the Consortium and Pemex to present a Unitization Agreement, which is currently being negotiated.
Authorities have opened 1,700 individual investigations for fuel theft, which became a massive black-market industry in Mexico under previous governments,
involving powerful drug cartels and corrupt Pemex insiders.