Pemex to Resume Natural Gas Service a Week After Mexico Blasts

(Bloomberg) — Petroleos Mexicanos, the state oil monopoly, will “gradually” resume natural gas service tomorrow, a week after guerrilla attacks on pipelines cut fuel supply to thousands of businesses across central Mexico.

Pemex, as the Mexico City-based company is known, said technicians had begun filling the 48-inch duct known as Cactus- San Fernando with natural gas after they installed “alternative infrastructure” in damaged areas.


“That will allow natural-gas service to be regularized, in a gradual way, to all industrial and domestic clients beginning on Monday,” the company said.

Reestablished service will allow as many as 2,500 companies in 11 states to resume full production. The companies, which include Volkswagen AG, Europe’s largest automaker, have been losing an estimated $100 million a day, Mexico’s National Manufacturing Industry Chamber said on Sept. 11.

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