Mexico's Pemex says explosions at several pipelines
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Mexican state-owned energy company Pemex said on Monday explosions caused by sabotage hit several of its natural gas pipelines on the Gulf of Mexico.
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Production at Mexicoâs giant Cantarell oil field will fall by 15 percent this year, JesÃºs Reyes HerÃ³les, left, the director general of PetrÃ³leos Mexicanos, Mexicoâs state-owned oil monopoly, said. Output dropped 13.1 percent last year. Mr. Reyes HerÃ³les, a former energy minister who took over at Pemex in December, said other projects would help make up for the shortfall at Cantarell, which last year accounted for about 55 percent of Pemexâs overall production of 3.26 million barrels a day. Mexico is a top supplier of imported oil to the United States. Mr. Reyes HerÃ³les said that the company needed additional investment of $8 billion to $10 billion a year to keep up production, develop new reserves, expand its refining capacity and modernize its storage and transport network. But Pemex is closed to private investment and cannot finance the investment itself. Last year, Pemex sales surpassed $100 billion but it paid $79 billion in taxes, which accounted for almost 40 percent of Mexicoâs federal budget.
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MALTRATA, Mexico  - Explosions rocked Mexico on Monday as attacks on six pipelines disrupted oil and gas supplies and forced thousands from their homes, just weeks after leftist rebels set off a string of pipeline bombs.
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Five explosions rocked the Spanish city of Madrid. The blasts took place at petrol pumps after a telephonic warning from armed Basque separatists.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - Dozens of people died when a trailer-truck loaded with highly flammable chemicals exploded in a road accident in northern Mexico, Mexican media reported on Monday.
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NADADORES, Mexico  - A truck loaded with chemical fertilizer exploded in Mexico on Monday after a traffic accident, creating a huge fireball that killed dozens, including rescue workers and photographers.
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Mexico's government on Tuesday called a series of gas pipeline explosions a threat to the nation's democratic institutions and vowed to step up security after a guerrilla group claimed responsibility for the blasts.
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MADRID - A spokesperson claiming to be from the Basque separatist group ETA issued warnings before at least six small explosions went off around Spain Monday.
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The leftist who barely lost Mexico's presidential election criticized President Felipe Calderon's oil policies, promising unspecified consequences during a mass rally Sunday aimed at re-igniting his government-in-resistance.
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Five small explosive devices detonated Friday at Madrid gas stations after a telephone warning from the armed Basque separatist group ETA, reports said.
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MAKHACHKALA. Dec 9 (Interfax-South) - The explosion in the Mozdok - Gazimagomed gas pipeline hurt 22 people, including two representatives of the Dagestani Emergency Situations Ministry and two representatives
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A gas line exploded Monday, sending flames hundreds of feet in the air as some workers were laying a pipeline. Several nearby vehicles were burned but no one was hurt.
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A rebel group claiming responsibility for gas pipeline explosions that cost Mexican businesses millions of dollars said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press Thursday that the attacks will continue until authorities release two rebels they believe are in government custody.
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A series of violent attacks on the energy infrastructure in Pakistan's strategic southwest could have a major backlash on various multi-billion gas pipeline projects, industry experts said.
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An explosion has ripped through a section of a pipeline near the Baiji refinery in northern Iraq. Witnesses say the cause of the explosion was not immediately clear.
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A deadly blast in Mexico City raises fears that Mexican drug cartels are adopting the tactics of their Colombian allies
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Up to 1,200 companies in Mexico have stopped production because of problems with the supply of natural gas following a rash of pipeline explosions caused by rebels, an industrial group said on Thursday.