| Amid Wave of Thefts, Mexico Announces It Will No Longer Ship Gasoline Through Pipelines BBC News | |
| go to original February 18, 2015 |
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Cocaine & Crude: Protecting Mexico's Oil Pipeline and Employees from Drug Cartels (Vice)
Mexico's state-owned oil company Pemex has announced it will stop shipping ready-to-use petrol and diesel through its pipelines, in an effort to curb fuel thefts.
Pemex says it will use its pipelines across Mexico only for unfinished fuel. That fuel will go through a last phase of mixing when it reaches the company's storage plants.
More than $1bn orth of fuel was stolen by Mexican gangs in 2014, an increase of 70% over the previous year.
In a statement, the company warned consumers not to buy illegal fuel tapped from its pipelines as it was likely to damage car engines.
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