Pemex News

Lisa Weakens to Tropical Storm After Leaving Belize’s Main Port in Dark

BELIZE CITY — Lisa weakened into a tropical storm as it moved across Belize Wednesday, leaving much of the country’s largest city in the dark, although there were no reports of deaths or major damage so far in the Caribbean …

Mexico Finds Possible Remains, Restores Some Oil Production

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s state-owned oil company said Tuesday the possible remains of two missing subcontractors had been found on one of its oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico following a weekend fire. Petroleos Mexicanos said it had …

Refinery Fire and Falling Debris Hit Mexico After 7.4 Quake

A 7.4 magnitude earthquake that hit southern Mexico on Tuesday killed at least two people, left others trapped under rubble and caused a fire at the nation’s biggest oil refinery. The epicenter was near the beach resort of Huatulco in …

Mexican Minister Says Pemex Oil Firm Unaffected By Cyberattack, Workers Disagree

Mexico City — A cyberattack on computer networks of the Mexican national oil company Pemex is “totally under control” and did not have any negative consequences, Security Minister Alfonso Durazo said on Thursday. The attack was first detected on Sunday …

Ransomware Attack At Mexico’s Pemex Halts Work, Threatens To Cripple Computers

MEXICO CITY — A ransomware attack hit computer servers and halted administrative work on Monday at Mexican state oil firm Pemex, according to employees and internal emails, in hackers’ latest bid to wring ransom from a major company. Hackers have …

Mexico’s Oil Company’s Math Claims Better Worker Safety

In late May, Pemex, the Mexican state-owned petroleum company, announced that it had succeeded in bringing its worker fatality and accident rate below the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers’ international average in 2014. That’s hard to verify because …