MEXICO CITY, March 29 (Prensa Latina) Mexico set a new record in its national gasoline production in February by surpassing 300,000 barrels per day, Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) reported on its website today.
According to the published note, such a volume has not been recorded since May 2017.
According to the company’s operational indicators, as of the second month of the year, gasoline production averaged 309.1 thousand barrels per day, a significant increase compared to July 2020, when the lowest volume of 145 thousand barrels was already produced during the Covid-19 pandemic .
The information, which cites the National Refining System, explains that the increase represented a 15 percent increase compared to the immediately previous month and 25 percent compared to the same month in 2021.
In terms of diesel production, Pemex reported an average of 15.3 thousand barrels in February, also up 13 percent from the immediately previous month and 49 percent from the same period in 2021.
It points out that heating oil production in February averaged 241.7 thousand barrels per day, a volume down 10 percent from 266.8 thousand in January this year and a 2.5 percent decrease compared to the same month of January year 2021 lies.
LPG was down 1.8 percent to average 97.7 barrels per day compared to January 2020 and up 5.6 compared to February 2021.
Pemex recalls that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has stated that they have invested 32 billion pesos ($1.6 billion) to rehabilitate the system’s six refineries, in addition to building the new Olmeca refinery in Dos Bocas and Purchase of Deer Park in the United States.
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