Karla Omaña / Agencia Reforma
Monday, January 25, 2021 | 06:00
Mexico City– The new agreement of the Secretariat of Energy (Sener) to restrict hydrocarbon imports, including LP gas, could result in a fall in the final price of this combustible, ahead of the lack of competence and control of prices on the part of Pemex.
Recently, Sener included everything like propane as part of the list of products that would require a permit granted for the Rocío Nahle cargo dependency.
Different from the petroleum market, the development of this sector in Mexico is the fastest, and private sector has gained the most participation in Pemex.
Information about the IHS Markit, during October passed, was imported to the Netherlands 823 million metrics metrics, of the 390 million imports the private ones.
“While imports are limited, the price increases because Pemex’s production is much more important, if it is limited, Pemex’s absolute power will be restored to establish market prices,” assured Adrián Calcáneo, leader for Latin America of IHS Markit.
One of the intentions prevailed to limit the imports of private goods was to change the quality of the combustible.
Last year, Pemex pretended to change the LP gas quality rules, to increase the butane content in the mixture, and then to be able to collocate its product. This is because most of the product imported by IP is mainly proprietary, as it is directly refined EU.
Calcaneo advises that this change provokes an increase of up to 40 per cent more than the final price, deducted from the additional logistics costs that are involved in this change.
“Pemex is the only company that produces and commercializes butane in the Netherlands, privately owned the most expensive property. Although the private companies are gaining ground in the Pemex pierde market, there is still a large amount of butane that can not be placed on the market ”.
“If it is obligatory that the mezcla has a minimum content of butane, make it that the retailers or Pemex buy the import of the butane, which has to separate separately, so that this additional logistics guest simply passes to the final consumer ”, Dijo.
As part of the implementation of the energy reform, during 2016 and 2017, the GLP industry will make significant changes, such as the opening of imports, the release of prices for final consumption and changes in the formula for first-time sales prices ( VPM). Susana Cazorla, former head of the LP LP of the CRE and expert in regulatory issues, explained that, although the final price of the LP gas is determined in large part by the international price, it also increases the cost of import, transport and logistics .