U.S. Government Loaned Mexican Government More Than $1 Billion to Drill Oil in Gulf of Mexico Last Year; Has $1 Billion More Planned For This Year

U.S. Government Loaned Mexican Government More Than $1 Billion to Drill Oil in Gulf of Mexico Last Year; Has $1 Billion More Planned For This Year Scotty Starnes | September 8, 2010 at 3:49 PM | Tags: Barack Obama, Brazil, deep water moritorium, drilling for oil, George Soros, Mexico, Obama, Petrobras, President Obama | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-2zl

Obama wants to kill our oil industry while supplementing other country's oil exploration. We seen this last year when Obama awarded George Soros-backed Petrobras $2 billion to drill for oil. Now we learn that our tax dollars are being used to help Mexico drill for oil. Why is it perfectly fine for these countries to drill for oil while we have a moratorium in place on our abilities to drill for oil?

CNS News reports:

The U.S. Export-Import Bank, an independent federal agency, loaned more than $1 billion to the Mexican state oil company PEMEX in 2009 to support the company's oil drilling in the southern Gulf of Mexico. The bank has another $1 billion in loans in the pipeline for 2010, unless Congress objects. 

On May 27, after the British Petroleum oil spill, President Obama imposed a moratorium on U.S. deepwater drilling in the Gulf, effecting 33 deepwater drilling rigs in the region.
 
PEMEX was the Export-Import Bank's largest borrower in 2009 and has borrowed $8.3 billion from the U.S. federal government since 1998. Under the 2009 loan agreements, PEMEX agreed to contract with American firms and purchase equipment from American manufacturers in exchange for the money.
 
One loan, worth $600 million, went to finance the development of 18 oil and natural gas fields in the Bay of Campeche in the southern Gulf of Mexico. Campeche is the area where the majority of Mexico's oil and gas production takes place and is located just north of the Yucatan Peninsula.
Another loan, worth $300 million, went to fund the building of oil production facilities in Mexico's Cantarell offshore oil field, which provides a large portion of Mexico's oil production, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA).
 
The $900 million in combined loans occurred in April of 2009.
 
Another $150 million in Export-Import Bank loans was made in May of 2009 to support PEMEX's Strategic Gas Program, including natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico.

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