Weather Stops Crude Exports

October 20, 1999

Mexico's crude oil export ports Dos Bocas and Pajaritos in the Gulf of Mexico remained closed on Wednesday by bad weather, the Transport Ministry said. Winds of up to 85 kmph were whipping up 14-ft. waves at Coatzacoalcos the Veracruz state port where Pajaritos is located, the ministry said. A daily average of 389,000 barrels of extra-light Olmeca crude was exported from Pajaritos in 1997.

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