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Article: Open borders: Mexico's state oil company demands GIS interoperability.(Utilities Management)
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- GEO World
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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Established in 1938, Pemex is Mexico's state oil and gas company. It's the world's seventh-largest integrated oil and gas company, with a current daily output of approximately 3.4 billion barrels of oil and a natural gas production of more than 4.5 billion cubic feet per day. Current sales are more than $40 billion per year.
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Headquartered in Mexico City, Pemex has three other main offices in Villahermosa, Coatzacoalcos and Puerto Rico, and it's structured into several major divisions that manage the various aspects of the Pemex operation. GIS has played a central role at the company for more than 10 years, especially in ...