Just last Sunday, August 17, around 9:00 p.m., Edgar Sánchez’s testimony expressed a tone of alert, ” Take your precautions, I just stopped to fill up with gas and of the eight pumps, only two were working. In addition, they could only sell me 20 liters because there was no gas, oh, and only cash!”
Despite the testimony, Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) had published a few hours earlier: “The incidents reported last week in Nuevo León, Chiapas and the Valley of Mexico were due to maintenance adjustments, which have already been addressed 100% and supply has been fully regularized,” a situation that at least in the east of Mexico City did not coincide with reality.
” The problems we are facing are due to a lack of logistics on the part of Pemex , because transportation providers have the PR (type of permit) configurations to be able to supply service stations directly from the storage terminals,” a hydrocarbon-specialized transporter told T21, asking not to be identified.
Regarding the shortage, another transporter consulted by T21 explained that, based on information within the sector, of the more than two thousand tankers that the federal government acquired in 2019, it is public knowledge that some were recovered by financial companies due to non-payment, a version confirmed by another transporter.
“The issue is that they don’t fully understand how logistics can be implemented, and that it’s not just about operating Pemex tankers under the protection of the Ministry of Defense, but also about taking advantage of the infrastructure of transporters who operate with Pemex and who have the capacity,” described one of the businessmen.
Just last July, nearly 150 transportation companies serving Pemex renewed their service contracts, allowing them to continue operating services for the state-owned company for six years. Their infrastructure could serve areas with water shortages.
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