Huricane Dean affects Mexican oil, natural gas production

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) — Hurricane Dean has affected productivity in the oil fields of Mexico’s state oil company (Pemex) in the Gulf of Mexico and in Campeche Sound, with a reduction of 10.8 million barrels of crude oil and 10.30 million cubic feet of natural gas.

Pemex informed on Thursday in a communique that in August 2007 crude-oil extraction was 2.8 million barrels a day, lower than in previous months.


Without hurricane Dean, crude-oil production would have been 3.2 million barrels a day and 6.2 billion cubic feet of gas per day, Pemex said.

Pemex’s earnings for crude-oil exports from January 1 to August 31 decreased by 7.1 percent compared to the same period of 2006.

Xinhua