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Pemex Shuts Two Gulf Oil-Export Ports on Bad Weather (Update1)

By Thomas Black

April 13 (Bloomberg) -- Petroleos Mexicanos, the third- largest supplier of crude to the U.S., has closed two oil-export terminals in the Gulf of Mexico because of winds and lightning.

Mexico's Merchant Marine announced the closure of the Dos Boca port, in the southern state of Tabasco, in its 10 a.m. (11 a.m. New York time) weather bulletin today and then added the shutdown of its Pajaritos terminal in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, in a 4 p.m. bulletin.

To contact the reporter on this story: Thomas Black in Monterrey, Mexico, at tblack@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: April 13, 2008 19:53 EDT

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