Pemex unit sets dry natural gas output record

Aug 29, 2006 02:00 AM

Mexico's state oil company Pemex reported its Pemex Gas y Petroquimica Basica (PGPB) subsidiary reached an average production record in July of 3.62 bn cfpd of dry natural gas.
In the first seven months of this year, PGPB increased dry natural gas average production 7.9 % to 3.38 bn cfpd compared to the year-ago period, Pemex said.

In the same period, the subsidiary boosted wet gas output 5.6 % to 4.11 bn cfpd, and sent an average 3.24 bn cfpd of sour gas and 869 mm cfpd of sweet gas to its processing plants. In July, Pemex also produced a record 1.06 bn cfpd of sweet gas.
From January-July of this year, production of Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs) was 446,000 bpd, of which 222,000 bpd were Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), 92,000 bpd were gasoline, 130,000 bpd were ethane and 2,000 bpd were other products.

Source: BNamericas