Major Increase of Illegal Oil Siphoning in Mexico Leads to Losses in the Millions Fox News Latino
go to original February 6, 2014

Theft of oil and gas from Mexico’s pipelines has created a multi-million dollar underground industry and caused more worries for Mexico’s state-owned oil PEMEX after the discovery of more than 2000 illegal valves were discovered last year alone, a major Mexican newspaper reports.

PEMEX discovered 2,614 illegal siphons on its pipelines stealing gasoline, diesel, crude oil, natural gas and petrochemicals in 2013, compared to just 155 found in 2000 – an astonishing 1,548 percent rise in 13 years, Mexican newspaper El Universal reported after filing a freedom of information request in the country.

The figures mean that a new siphon is placed on one of PEMEX’s pipelines at a rate of once every 14 hours.

Siphons have been found in every single state where PEMEX pipelines are present, but seem to proliferate more in state that also see more activity from Mexico’s drug cartels.

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