Mexico Pemex Jan petchem production falls 0.9% yr on yr

20 February 2009 22:33  [Source: ICIS news]

MEXICO CITY (ICIS news)--State-run Mexican petrochemical giant Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) produced 349,000 tonnes of olefins, aromatics and other petrochemicals in January, down 0.9% year over year, the company said on Friday.

Compared with December, however, January's figure was up by 32%, Pemex said.

The figure does not include the polypropylene (PP) produced at the Morelos petrochemical plant, which is part of Pemex’s refining division.

The largest year-over-year change was in ethylbenzene (EB), in which production dropped by 15,000 tonnes to 1,000 tonnes, Pemex said.

The largest month-over-month change was in ethylene, which rose by 26,000 tonnes to reach 98,000 tonnes. The next largest change was an 18,000-tonne increase in propylene production.

Overall, Pemex produced 1.61m tonnes of chemicals in January, up 1% from the same time last year and up 29% from December 2008, Pemex said. The figure includes refinery products, natural gas and sulphur.

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