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.
Pemex's oil-export sales in August were 1.63 million barrels a day.
Meanwhile, Pemex's earnings from sales in the first eight months of 2007 were of 1.71 million barrels, for 22.94 billion dollars, with each barrel selling at 55.15 U.S. dollars.
Source: Xinhua
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