The contracts without bid

National
Infested by the corruption
The contracts without bid
By: Carlos Damián April 12, 2012
The corruption of Pemex
México. - The history of corruption is large in the subsidiaries of Pemex. Still when the director of the company property of the state (para-state), Juan Jose Suarez Coppel (JJSC), committed to clean up it, he has not been able to put a stop to the old practices of assigning contracts without bid that they only benefit friends and some directive godfathers. In Pemex Exploration and Production (PEP), the situation is similar to that of Pemex Refinery (PR). There the documented corruption goes back at least at 2004. In July of that year, PEP competed the licitación18575108-030-04, in which participated several companies, among them Oceanography, bound to the siblings Bribiesca Sahagun, Martha Sahagun’s children.

In that occasion the bid was declared vacancy. Still when the competition low investigation was still, in October of that same year officials of the para- state began the process of direct award DOCSM-095-040 to Oceanography. On May of 2005, the officials of Pemex Hector Leyva Torres, José Guadalupe de la Garza Saldivar and Flaviano Rodriguez Marcial signed the contract with Oceanography. The costs it was for 45.07 million dollars more other 27 million dollars for the lease of the ship lease of the ship ‘Caballo de Trabajo', used for the rehabilitation of marine platforms that was a fiasco.

Flaws were detected in the ship, their crane was damaged, there was non-fulfillment in the benefit of services and deficiency in the carried out works The ship had to be taken out of the ‘Sonda de Campeche’ to make it bigger repairs that were prolonged during months. In spite of the retard anything happened, neither it was punished anybody. The traffic of influences on the part of the relatives of the former president Vicente Fox was notorious. Now it is known that covered by the presidential power, their spouse's children demanded Pemex Exploration's officials to grant millionaire contracts to Oceanography, impelled by the siblings Manuel and Jorge Bribiesca, as well as for Guillermo Sahagun; Together they benefitted with dozens of contracts in the para-state.

When it was managing of Pemex Raul Munoz Leos, the lawyer of the para-state, Luis Ramirez Corzo, the now particular secretary of Calderon, and Pemex Exploration's director, Carlos Morales Gil, they are who were accused of violating the Law of the public officials' Responsibilities in the federal administration. The previous former officials inside Pemex endorsed the irregularities of the Bribiesca, for example, the shipping Oceanographic received 600 million dollars in work contracts and services. PR in spite of the campaigns and the combat to the corruption impelled by the managing JJSC, in Pemex they maintain effective the corrupt practices, without they proceeds against the denounced officials, and they continue plundering Pemex.

The Ministry of the Public Function investigates the assignment of “urgent” contracts, it model that was implanted to benefit to the particular companies. Under this outline contracts have also been included to acquire fuels as gasoline, diesel and fuel that have flooded the national market; for they are not built it the refineries that Mexico needs to develop its own industry national oil company. While the corruption continues without control, the refineries continue lowering its production for several years.

Refineries without taking place enough
The refineries of Pemex are working to very low speed: a series of stoppages carried out supposedly to carry out maintenance works, and in some cases, the meteorological setbacks and other catastrophes have prevented that Pemex produces the necessary fuel to maintain in starts the country. To attenuate the shortage it has even been appealed to millionaire imports of fuel that only bleed to the treasury. This is taken with a series of stoppages “by maintenance” in the refineries of Pemex -begun in May and that it will be prolonged until August, 2011 - it has generated chaos in the National System of Refinement (SNR, in Spanish), because the drop production of gasoline had to be solved with millionaire emergency imports and maneuvers that saturated the facilities to a cost unquantifiable.

Pemex confronts the shortage with imports so expensive that in one month and means they ended up adding a million 645 thousand barrels of gasoline and diesel with a think value of 380 million dollars, without counting the transportation expenses neither the maintenance corrective of the refineries. That will have to add the cost of set in motion each stopped plant again. The most serious case is that of the Refinery Hector Lara Sosa, in Cadereyta, Nuevo Leon State in whose combined plants I and II was suspended the production May 10. The refinery was totally outside of operation up to 28 in that month. Still at the stop of June the plant had not recovered its productive capacity and the operation of the poliduct of Brownsville - Cadereyta should be altered then during those almost three weeks of stoppage there were daily suspensions; when beginning June it was suspended in a partial way the import of gasoline ‘Premium’ and by the middle of month it was canceled the reception of that gasoline completely to prioritize the supply of the ‘Magna’ ultra-drop of sulfur.

On Cadereyta the stoppages are the main factor of the chaos in the SNR, but it is not the only one, since Madero City’s refineries, Saline Cruz, Tula and Salamanca, they caused a deficit in the readiness of fuels that was solved with the import of 945 thousand barrels of petroleum. Data of PR indicate that the one costs of the transfers of applied resources they indicate that the one costs of the transfers of resources applied by the Ministry of Treasury between 2006 and 2007 it was of 6 thousand 34.73 million dollars for the purchase of gasoline in The States. For 2008, the figure increased to 13 thousand 333.33 millions, as long as a refinery has a cost of 5 thousand million dollars and that investment would be enough to process 300 thousand daily barrels, with what the import of gasoline would be avoided. However, the purchase of fuel continues rising in the country, and it is suspicious the fact that all the refineries of the nation are simultaneously in repair. An absurd simile is that we compare when exporting lemons because we are producing and let us be caring juice of lemons for the country. We ask for forgiveness to my readers for the idiot and absurd used example. (Proceso No. 1810, el expediente del crimen, p.p. 37 - 39, July 10, 2011).