The U.S. Census Bureau recorded exports of 597,027 barrels of crude oil destined for Mexico in June 2026. On October 9, the same bureau adjusted that record, according to Bloomberg Línea: the May shipment was reclassified as auto parts and the destination country for the June crude was changed to Singapore.
The original record, reported by El Financiero, valued the June cargo at 69.67 million dollars, equivalent to 19,901 barrels per day, in the New Orleans, Louisiana, customs district, with crude of 25 degrees API or higher. For May, the report was 980 barrels and 41,400 dollars from Laredo, Texas. Pemex told El Financiero that so far in 2026 it has not made any imports of crude oil and that it has no record of a valid permit for that type of operation; the Ministry of Energy did not respond to the request for information. Mexico is a net exporter of crude, and its external purchases are concentrated in refined products such as gasoline, diesel and liquefied gas.
Bloomberg Línea specified that the correction removed 598,000 barrels from the May and June records, leaving the crude exports to Mexico reported by the Census Bureau at zero. The bureau said the May data point was reclassified as auto parts and the destination country for the June crude was changed to Singapore. This is not the first adjustment: in October 2019 the same bureau corrected 541,000 barrels attributed to Mexico between July and August, after the Mexican government denied the information. Industry specialist Fluvio Ruiz Alarcón told El Financiero that importing crude for blending is common practice in the industry, because it allows refineries to be fed with crude oils close to their design parameters.
The June data point remains reassigned to Singapore in U.S. records, bringing the reported crude balance for Mexico back to zero. The reference to follow is the next updates from the Energy Information Administration, which compiles its statistics from the Census Bureau figures.
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