Narcos Stealing Millions in Texas Oil Field Equipment
Friday, July 27, 2012 | Borderland Beat Reporter Chivis
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Narcos buy or trade drugs for stolen oil field equipment used to cap PEMEX pipelines, subsequently, trucking the PEMEX stolen oil back into the U.S. and selling it to American oil brokers....Chivis
KRGV - Investigators say Mexican cartels are stealing millions of dollars in equipment from oil companies along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Officials said the equipment is behind used to steal fuel from Mexico's state-owned oil company Pemex.
"The cartels (are) buying, or trading narcotics for stolen oil field equipment so they could put taps on Pemex's pipelines," said Midland County Chief Sheriff Deputy Ed Krevit.
Many of the thefts are happening at oil fields in the Permian Basin.
"There's more oil field theft in this area than any place I've ever worked," said Dustin Brown, with Savanna Drilling.
Krevit estimates that Pemex may be losing up to $350 million a year from illegal taps on their pipelines.
He said cartels often truck the oil back to the U.S. where they sell it to oil brokers.
"Some of the cartels have been shouldered out of their traditional smuggling paths, so they've had to turn to other ways of generating revenue," Krevit said.
The cartels use the money to buy weapons and ammunition, he said.
"If they are doing it in West Texas, they're doing it in South Texas," said Phil Jordan, former DEA supervisor.
Jordan said there is intelligence that cartels are stealing equipment in South Texas.
More than a dozen companies drilled more than 3,000 wells in South Texas last year.
"If I'm losing equipment, losing parts, losing pieces, it's passed on to the operator and the operator has to pass it on to the consumer," Brown said.
Task force investigators said they are trying to stop the cartels in their tracks. They will start training law enforcement to spot oil field thefts.
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This is an old story. It's been around for at least 5 years. Saw it in the Houston Chronicle a few weeks back. How about some on-the-scene reporting from Matamoros, Jim? Recycling news is Juan Montoya's schtick.
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ReplyDeletePeople who engage in the jobs and businesses that revolve around oilfield know the importance of tools and instruments used in the oilfield. The techniques involved in drilling, keeping and transportation of products to and from oilfield needs equipment that is different from the ones used by other industries. A lot of engineering methods and skills are used in order to work in an oilfield. There is a checklist of must have oil field equipment for an oilfield.
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