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Pipeline theft in Mexico rose 52% in 2015, according to an Associated Press report<\/a>.<\/p>\n The spike came after a43.7% annual increase<\/a> in 2014, according to asustainability report by Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned oil company.<\/p>\n And while the northeast section of the country \u2014 the site of competition between the vicious Zetas and Gulf cartels \u2014 was believed to have the most theft, research by El Daily Post<\/a> indicates that pipelines in central Mexico saw even more theft in recent years.<\/p>\n “Clearly, both Pemex and the federal government need to keep up the efforts to mitigate the infrastructure\u2019s vulnerability and strengthen the security forces\u2019 capabilities,” El Daily Post’s Dwight Dyer writes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Data on oil losses given to El Daily Post by the Mexican government earlier this year revealed<\/a> that a pipeline running through Zetas territory had lost 3.86 million barrels of oil between 2009 and 2015. Circumstantial evidence suggests that much of the oil was likely lost to criminal activity.<\/p>\n Documents released by the Mexican government in early 2014 revealed that oil theft affected every Mexican state, with Los Zetas territory in Tamaulipas and Veracruz states experiencing the most rapid growth<\/a>.<\/p>\n In Tamaulipas state, in northeast Mexico close to Gulf of Mexico oil production, authorities \u201cfound that a cell of the deadly Zetas gang was organizing oil robbery and transporting the crude into Texas,\u201d journalist Ioan Grillo reported<\/a> in 2011.<\/p>\n A new batch of data given to El Daily Post by the government, however,shows<\/a> that over the same period losses at a pipeline running from a refinery in Salamanca, Guanajuato, to a storage facility in Guadalajara reached 5.6 million barrels \u2014 45% more than what was lost at the pipeline cutting through Zetas territory, says Dyer.<\/p>\n
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