National oil company Petróleos Mexicanos suffered a short-term drop in oil production from an April accident at a Gulf of Mexico processing platform, but is ramping output back up and expects to meet its 2015 goal of 2.29 million barrels of oil a day on average, a company official said. Exploration and production chief Gustavo Hernández said on a conference call Thursday that the April 1 accident at the Abkatun oil and gas processing complex in the southern Gulf shut in some production, as did a series of storms in early January, but Pemex expects to pick up the pace in coming months. Four workers died in the explosion and fire at the Abkatun platform, and three workers are still missing, Mr. Hernández said. So far this year, Pemex has averaged crude-oil production of about 2.27 million barrels a day, with the most recent April 1-26 period just […]