Mexico’s Pemex says fire under control at Salina Cruz refinery
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican state oil firm Pemex stated on Saturday that it had introduced below management a fireplace at its Salina Cruz refinery within the southern Oaxaca state with none accidents to personnel.
The hearth, which began on Friday, had engulfed a gasoline storage tank, sending a dense plume of black smoke billowing from contained in the refinery.
Pemex stated firefighters had “concluded the work of suffocation and cooling” of the tank.
In August, the Salina Cruz refinery was hit by one other fireplace.
Salina Cruz has the capability to course of 330,000 barrels per day of crude oil, in accordance with information from Eikon Refinitiv.
In November, one other fireplace broke out at a Pemex refinery complicated in northern Mexico but it surely was introduced below management with none accidents to workers or disruption to manufacturing. https://www.reuters.com/enterprise/vitality/fire-breaks-out-mexicos-cadereyta-refinery-no-injuries-reported-pemex-source-2021-11-12
(Reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez and Noé Torres; Extra reporting by Stefanie Eschenbacher; Modifying by Drazen Jorgic, Franklin Paul and Edmund Klamann)
