The project consists of the installation of a floating storage and regasification unit off the coast of Coatzacoalcos and a marine and land pipeline, approximately 25 kilometres, to transport the hydrocarbon to the plant on land.

The construction and operation of the plant, which was conditioned to compliance with measures to mitigate environmental impacts, It was approved a few months after Braskem Idesa and Pemex agreed to a new ethane gas supply agreement that meant savings for the national oil company by 13 one thousand 749 millions of pesos.

In december of last year, the National Center for Natural Gas Control (Dinners) suspended the supply of natural gas to Braskem Idesa's Ethylene XXI plant, arguing the end of the contract that, they said, it was no longer going to be renewed. The suspension occurred in the midst of negotiations between the company and Pemex for a contract signed during the administration of Felipe Calderón, which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador described as "leonino", noting that the firm of Brazilian origin had been favored.

Between changes to the contract, highlights that Braskem Idesa must pay 100 percent of the international reference price of ethane gas, when I only paid 70 percent, in addition to that it will take care of the costs of transporting the energy, an expense that was absorbed by Pemex, and a clause was abolished in which the productive state company would have to have paid five thousand 200 millions of dollars in case of early termination of the contract.

The private company is a Mexican subsidiary of the petrochemical company Braskem, company belonging to the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, company singled out for the largest corruption case in Latin America, with bribes to senior officials from a dozen countries, including Mexico.

In december 2016, after the corruption case became known, representatives of the Brazilian construction company confessed to the United States Department of Justice to have paid 10.5 million dollars in bribes to senior Pemex officials to win works contracts.

The case led to the arrest in Spain and extradition of the former director of the oil company, Emilio Lozoya, who has been detained in Mexico since July of last year.

An investigation by the Brazilian Congress assured that the money that Lozoya allegedly received from Odebrecht during the presidential campaign of Enrique Peña Nieto, it came from its petrochemical subsidiary Braskem, which was then building the Ethylene XXI plant in Veracruz.

The signs, both from international organizations and the current President of Mexico, have not prevented the company from continuing its business in the country.

Braskem Idesa justified the need for the new maritime terminal, due to the high demand for ethane and the drop in production at the national level.

"The high demand for ethane gas for the production of different polymers in Mexico, and the low production of the same within the country, have led companies to have to import hydrocarbon. For this reason, it is necessary to have the adequate infrastructure that allows receiving large vessels ", point to the project.

The work will be added to the Coatzacoalcos-Nanchital R1 Ethane Terminal, that the company builds on land with an investment of 150 millions of dollars.

The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources said in the approval of the MIA-R that “it identified that according to the information provided by the petitioner (Braskem Idesa), the development of the works and activities that make up the project are congruent with the Regional Ecological Ordinance Program of the Lower Coatzacoalcos River Basin ".

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