LA INDUSTRIA PETROQUÍMICA EN MÉXICO Y EL ROL DE PEMEX EN SU DESARROLLO

Abstract

Thousands of products can be obtained from the petrochemical industry, then, when we thought about proposals to encourage it, we can´t think in all of these products at a time, however, it could be considered the more relevant ones, those who currently have a high level of imports and sales value. In this study we found that the petrochemical which would be interesting to invest are ammonia, Low Density Polyethylene and High Density Polyethylene, due to its import levels, installed capacity and domestic consumption needs. Of course there are many other petrochemicals under these same conditions, however, to propose a starting point, some considerations were generated for the above mentioned products. It is very interesting that in the case of ammonia, the installed capacity is excessive even on the basis of apparent domestic consumption, but production volumes are not enough, having as a result the importation of large quantities. The installed capacity of ammonia is not utilized sufficiently. In the case of polyethylene, the production is unable to meet internal demands, but the main problem is the lack of capacity to cover the total volume necessities of this products. Faced with this problem, it could be shown that Mexico has all the resources necessary to give a new impetus to its petrochemical industry, which would result in better utilization of this valuable and non-renewable resource: oil.