Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Pemex Transformación Industrial (PTI), the processing arm of state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) is investigating the cause of two gas explosions that occurred on Dec Lara Sosa refining complex in Cadereyta Jiménez The morning explosions—which stemmed from an accumulation of gas in the refinery and resulted in minor injuries to five contract workers at the site—were under control by 1:00 p.m the government of Nuevo León and  Nuevo León Governor Jaime Rodríguez Calderón said in a series of posts to their official Twitter accounts In a separate post to its official Twitter account Pemex said the incident—identified by the operator as a “roar” in a section of the refinery’s storm drainage system—did not cause any major personal injuries or material damages at the site The refinery is continuing to operate normally and an investigation into the root cause of the incident is under way Pemex said without disclosing additional details the Cadereyta refinery had completed 21 of 24 scheduled repairs under the rehabilitation program in projects that were budgeted for 2.4 billion pesos in 2019 and 2.1 billion pesos in 2020 Following completion of repairs planned for site during 2020—which were scheduled to run from August to October—the government said it expected crude processing at the Cadereyta refinery to increase to 160,000 b/d in November from 115,000 b/d in July 2020 Pemex said during 2020 it would rehabilitate 11 processing plants at Cadereyta—the only refinery in Mexico’s refining system whose entire gasoline and diesel production completely conforms to ultralow-sulfur standards—at a cost of 4.125 billion pesos with major repair works to be completed at a total of 26 of the Cadereyta refinery’s plants by yearend 2023 as part of the national rehabilitation program—to which Mexico has allocated an overall budget of 22.905 billion pesos for all six refineries with the heaviest falling on 05 September when the city of Cadereyta Jiménez recorded 242.9 mm of rain in 24 hours Flash floods struck across several municipalities in the area Around 350 homes were damaged in several neighbourhoods in and around the state capital Monterrey including Cadereyta Jiménez and Juárez municipalities Civil Protection helped to evacuate around 200 residents from flooded homes in Cadereyta Jiménez Firefighters and Nuevo León Civil Protection rescued 8 adults and 2 children from flooded areas along the La Silla river in Guadalupe Flooding caused chaos on roads around the affected area and emergency teams helped to rescue the occupants of 95 vehicles trapped in flood waters State Civil Protection reported 4 people died when a vehicle was swept off the Allende-Cadereyta highway near the village of Barranquito in Cadereyta Jiménez municipality One person was also reported missing after a motorcycle was swept away in the Barrio del Prado neighbourhood in Monterrey The heavy rain helped replenish local reservoirs which had suffered after a year of drought in the state Restrictions on drinking water remained in place however Se reporta tres personas atrapadas en el interior de un camión de CFE en la carretera estatal de#Montemorelos Se aproximan unidades de Protección Civil Nuevo León y Protección Civil Montemorelos Actualizamos pic.twitter.com/YVy5qacZAN — Protección Civil NL (@PC_NuevoLeon) September 6, 2022 Evita cruzar por zonas inundadas ⚠️🌧 Cualquier situación de riesgo, llama al 9-1-1 ⛑ #TodosSomosProtecciónCivil pic.twitter.com/Fn91jB8ix6 — Protección Civil NL (@PC_NuevoLeon) September 5, 2022 #AlMomento Actualizamos pic.twitter.com/fplvtCLmB8 — Protección Civil NL (@PC_NuevoLeon) September 3, 2022 Richard Davies is the founder of floodlist.com and reports on flooding news Cookies | Privacy | Contacts © Copyright 2025 FloodList 43,000+ global companies doing business in the region 102,000+ key contacts related to companies and projects news and interviews about your industry in English Petroblas Mexicanos (Pemex)'s oil refinery expansion in Cadereyta Petroblas Mexicanos (Pemex)’s oil refinery expansion in Cadereyta Also known as the Hector R Lara Sosa Refinery the plant has undergone tests to guarantee safety and efficiency since 2001 The 275,000bpd facility is located on the outskirts of Monterrey Mexico’s northern industrial capital The Cadereyta Refinery Reconfiguration Project (CRRP) improved the structure of the Mexican petroleum industry which was set for an upturn in petrol and diesel sales in northern Mexico Mexico imports approximately 40% of fuel for domestic consumption and demand is expected to increase by 5% by 2012 The CRRP was an unprecedented huge-scale construction expansion of four plants and building a 1,317km crude oil pipeline including a refinery plant producing 155,000bpd of fuel and a 65,000bpd fluidised catalytic cracking plant The project boosted the northern refinery’s output of unleaded and cleaner diesel reduced sulphur emissions and allowed it to process heavy crudes more efficiently an explosion at the refinery killed one worker and injured ten The explosion was caused by a leak in a compressor of a desulphurisation unit when Pemex extended the bid submission date up to October 1997 even though the tender documents were issued in the middle of 1996 The second time was for one year in 2000 due to a force majeure Pemex granted an extension to the completion date from 2 July 2000 to 21 April 2001 The work was carried out under a public works financing project that had not been used in Mexico consortium Conproca handed the refinery back to Pemex construction and commissioning of the entire project Other leading contractors included Siemens which covered the engineering and construction of all electrical instrumentation Siemens’ role in this project was to modernise and install the control systems for the refinery enabling the plant to double production of petrol The firm also implemented the automation systems for point-of-sale terminals and the Scada system for pump station monitoring and remote control It also divided the Cadereyta crude oil pipeline into various sections Siemens awarded a contract to ILF Consulting Engineers for a 1,200km The company provided extensive consultation in process hydraulics operation commissioning and line-fill of the pipeline system It also gave a definition of the automation concept contract management for application-specific software and consulting regarding contractual matters The pipeline transports oil to the refinery from the oil production areas in south-east Mexico and improves the capacity of other pipelines in the area Rotork Houston successfully bidded to supply 800 IQ actuators and Pakscan systems for the refinery It won the contract despite fierce competition from Europe and the US Tribasa began building the long-distance crude line SKEC took over all of Tribasa’s responsibilities for the project and carried out the construction works for the pipeline The Cadereyta refinery is the third-largest and most sophisticated plant of its kind in Mexico The plant infrastructure includes atmospheric distillation two intermediate distillated product HDS plants a sulphur recuperator plant and a naphtha reformer plant Pemex announced it would carry out a $600m upgrade of the Cadereyta refinery as part of a $3bn commitment to produce petrol and diesel with ultra-low sulphur content The project includes the addition of catalytic petrol desulphurisation plants The upgrade also covers the construction of six new plants and the modernisation of a seventh a $30m water-treatment plant will be built international tenders were invited and a $638m EPC contract was awarded to ICA Fluor a joint venture of Fluor Corp and Empresas ICA The $3bn programme aims to reduce sulphur content in vehicle fuels by 88% from 2004 levels As many as 22 new plants will be constructed across six refineries and half of these will be dedicated to the post-treatment of petrol Four plants at each refinery will be for hydrodesulphurisation and the production of hydrogen and three for sulphur treatment 18 plants producing intermediate distillates are to be modernised Give your business an edge with our leading industry insights View all newsletters from across the GlobalData Media network By Azra Halilovic / CU-CitizenAccess.org / Hoy– It was 40 years ago that 7-year-old Herlinda Kauffman squeezed into a brown Chevy Impala in Mexico with nine other people and headed for Illinois “There were 10 people in a small car with all the things that we owned in the world,” said Kauffman who recalled piling on top of her brothers and sisters “The little ones had to sit in the floorboards Kauffman and her family drove nearly 1,400 miles in four days from Cadereyta Jiménez to Arcola “[My dad] didn’t feel comfortable enough to drive the whole way,” said Kauffman laughing as she recalled him nervously chain-smoking the entire trip “Dad had never learned to drive till he bought that car But I mean his friend was in the same boat — he had just learned to drive.” like others from Mexico that would arrive in Arcola over the years came because of the “broomcorn” – corn made into brooms in Arcola A small town of nearly 3,000 residents in Douglas County about three hours south of Chicago Arcola is known for the Amish community that settled in 1865 City Administrator Bill Wagoner says Arcola is like about any other small Midwestern town except for its broomcorn and sizeable Latino population “Our roots are in the broom and household product industry They grew broomcorn here and that kind of brought in the manufacturing of brooms.” Population growth in Arcola has increased slightly – from about 2,270 in 1970 to 2,916 in 2010 But over time the town is about 30 percent Latino-a figure that doesn’t include the waves of seasonal Latino migrant workers who come during summer and fall From the 1880s to the 1950s Arcola was known as the broomcorn capital of the world the planting of broomcorn in Arcola itself diminished but the Libman factory where the material is produced has continued Arcolans for generations threw themselves into that difficult labor remembers harvesting the crop more than a half century ago with his father the ethnic background of those doing the work has changed Cadereyta Jiménez in the state of Nuevo León was considered the broomcorn capital of Mexico and many residents knew how to harvest the corn and manufacture goods Because Arcola started importing Cadereyta’s broomcorn families began moving to Illinois to carry out the arduous task of cutting laying out and preparing the plants that can grow as high as 12 to 14 feet and families from places in Southern Mexico like Chiapas But the majority of the town’s Mexican residents hail from Cadereyta Jiménez Cristobal Gonzalez has lived in the town for 20 years and watched the migration of Mexican workers who came to town with the expertise in broomcorn “Everyone already knows what to do,” he said Gonzalez said some workers branch into other jobs in the area Kauffman’s father was among the many Mexican immigrants in Arcola who had been a broom maker by trade but came to the U.S picked up work at the Libman broom company is now a community liaison and organizer who has been helping Latino families transition to life in the Midwest since 1986 but the culture are why the town has experienced a Latino boom “There’s a lot of large classes in the grade school,” said Wagoner about the shift in Arcola’s schools Latino students made up nearly 39 percent of Arcola’s classrooms for the 2011-2012 school year a 57 percent increase from the earlier time Language barriers are a big concern for Latino adults and most turn to the local Latino community center Operating out of a former garage storage bay the center provides childcare for parents in English classes youth community engagement and a computer lab open to the community “We are health department tbased but have connections to mental health and just kind of what the community needs,” said Director Tim Flavin who has been running the center for five years “We tend to really use our observation more or more instead of what they tell us they want.” Flavin says he advocates a philosophy of holistic wellness and believes the center has been integral in helping Arcola’s Latinos He said Mi Raza prides itself especially for educating young people about the possibility of college through a program called “College is Possible.” “We had some students who didn’t know they could attend college in Illinois,” Flavin said He said they considered going back to Mexico The program introduced many adolescents to the possibility of legally going to college through the Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM) The DREAM Act grants residency to undocumented youth if they meet certain conditions such as graduating high school or getting a GED and going to college to celebrate the growth of ethnic diversity in Arcola a group of artists known as the Walldogs came to Arcola in June They were invited by Arcola’s beautification committee which was impressed by the murals the artists painted in Danville The Walldogs painted 15 colorful murals in downtown Arcola each one telling a different story that characterizes the town while others depict Latino immigrants and broomcorn Other Arcola businesses are responding to the changing demographics has begun carrying Mexican and Central American foods to cater to the Latino population in town “Somewhat similar to like what Champaign’s doing the Asian kind of thing and Arthur doing an Amish kind of need,” said Rauch “We tend to the need of the Latino people because that’s our biggest buyers of in this store.” He said there is a Mexican grocery store in town but many Latinos still stop in at the IGA for goods Rauch said it is the type of place where everybody knows everybody and will help one another out The broomcorn industry brought a lot of Mexicans to Arcola but that the corn isn’t what it used to be “Broomcorn is something that you don’t see much anymore around in this area,” said Rauch He said most of the so-called broomcorn is now broom grass with filler “It costs so much to harvest it (because) it’s got to be harvested by hand there’s no machine to actually harvest broomcorn But he said it brought in a new demographic of people that has changed the town for the better “They don’t want to create any waves or anything like that I think they’ve kind of been a plus to it.” The streets may not yet be filled with Mexican eateries and groceries but businesses like El Taco Tako are popping up Owners Arturo and Maria Zendeja are the only employees from local whites and Latinos to passersby and migrant workers the Latino community here kept to its own culture and wasn’t really assimilating,” said real estate agent Wilmer Otto But Otto said the Amish are the only group that really keeps to itself now There are still some conservative bigots who push ‘go back to Mexico,’ but I think the Latinos here are generally recognized as a good labor force,” he said — (Hoy Chicago Editor Jeff Kelly Lowenstein contributed to this report.) 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San Lazaro to hold a popular consultation to close the Cadereyta Refinery explained the licensed legislator in his personal X account He justified that waiting for a change of government is not necessary in relation to the next election in which Mexicans will vote for the new country’s president “This closure of the Cadereyta Refinery can be done from now on with the legislative instruments we have,” said Alvarez Maynez in a video he highlighted the importance of caring for environment and air quality the Cadereyta refinery has been one of the most notable in terms of its emissions into the atmosphere In the Metropolitan Area of the city of Monterrey 94 percent of the total SO2 emissions that exist in the area come from the Cadereyta refinery according to data from the Citizen Observatory of Air Quality (OCCA) for Monterrey and website in this browser for the next time I comment Essential digital access to quality FT journalism on any device Complete digital access to quality FT journalism with expert analysis from industry leaders Complete digital access to quality analysis and expert insights complemented with our award-winning Weekend Print edition Terms & Conditions apply Discover all the plans currently available in your country See why over a million readers pay to read the Financial Times MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican police found nine bodies hanging from an overpass Thursday alongside a drug cartel banner threatening rivals and seven more corpses hacked up and dumped by the road nearby The killing spree reported by prosecutors in the western state of Michoacan marked a return to the grisly massacres carried out by drug cartels at the height of Mexico's 2006-2012 drug war when piles of bodies were dumped on roadways as a message to authorities and rival gangs Two of the bodies hung by ropes from the overpass by their necks and one of the dismembered bodies were women Michoacan Attorney General Adrián López Solís said at a news conference The victims in the city of Uruapan had been shot to death While the banner was not completely legible it bore the initials of the notoriously violent Jalisco drug cartel kill a Viagra," the banner read in part is meant to intimidate rivals and send a message to the authorities," said Mexico security analyst Alejandro Hope "This kind of cynical impunity has been increasing in Michoacan," Hope added a convoy of pickups and SUVs openly marked with the letters "CJNG" — the Spanish initials of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel — drove through the Michoacan city of Zamora at night shooting up police vehicles and killing or wounding several officers Uruapan is where Mexico's drug war first erupted in 2006 when members of the now-diminished La Familia cartel rolled five severed heads onto the floor of a dance hall What followed were eight years of terror in Michoacan until farmers and ranchers rose up in an armed vigilante movement to drive La Familia and its successor cartel one of the original founders of the vigilante movement said the violence is worse than ever and he wants the army to come back to Michoacan to help battle the cartels "We're worse off now than we were then," Mora said The state attorney general said the killings discovered Thursday appeared to be part of a turf war "Certain criminal gangs are fighting over territory to control activities related to drug production distribution and consumption," López Solís said this conflict results in these kinds of acts that justifiably alarm the public." an angry crowd beat and hanged seven suspected kidnappers leaving some of their bodies dangling from trees the national Human Rights Commission said Thursday night The Puebla state government said police and soldiers were sent to the area to try to stop the attack but villagers from the hamlets of Tepexco and Cohuecan kept them from intervening authorities in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz reported that four dismembered male bodies had been found in 15 bags left along highways near the state's border with Puebla Veracruz is another battleground between the Jalisco cartel and other criminal groups Mexican cartels had seemed loath to draw attention to themselves with mass public displays of bodies the gangs went to great lengths to hide bodies by creating clandestine burial pits or dissolving corpses in caustic chemicals which has gained a reputation for directly challenging authorities appears to have returned to showy killings as a way to intimidate rivals the then-smaller Jalisco cartel dumped 35 bodies on an expressway in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz the Zetas cartel left 49 decapitated bodies on a highway in northern Mexico and later in the same year they strung nine bodies from an overpass and left 14 severed heads near the city hall homicides dropped for a few years between 2012 and 2015 and many thought Mexico's drug war was winding down But homicides surged again last year and Mexico now has more murders than it did during the peak year of killings in 2011 up 5.3% compared to the same period of 2018 The country of almost 125 million people now sees as many as 100 killings a day nationwide File- Relatives of inmates react while waiting for news of their loved ones outside the Cadereyta state prison after a riot broke out at the prison Mexico — Authorities struggled Monday to identify the 49 people found mutilated and scattered in a pool of blood in a region near the U.S .border in the presumed fight between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels to outdo each other in bloodshed and expand their territory and smuggling routes More than 24 hours after the gruesome discovery officials had yet to identify any of the corpses no sign of gunshots had been found on any of the bodies Nuevo Leon state security spokesman Jorge Domene told Milenio television There were no reports of mass disappearances in the area and only one couple had visited the morgue in the city of Monterrey where the bodies were taken None of the six female bodies matched their missing daughter The 43 men and six women found Sunday were dumped at the entrance to the town of San Juan in the municipality of Cadereyta on a highway that connects the industrial city of Monterrey with Reynosa The area is contested by the Sinaloa Cartel headed by fugitive drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman who authorities said were responsible for Sunday's attack Though it's not clear who the victims are it was the fourth cartel massacre in the last month in an escalating tit-for-tat that seems to involve at least some innocents The Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel have emerged as the two main forces in Mexican drug-trafficking and other organized crime in the last year with smaller gangs lining up on either side in a competition that now resembles a full-scale war Interior Secretary Alejandro Poire confirmed Monday that there are indications that the recent massacres are the result of a fight between the Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel Some victims in earlier body dumps have turned out to be bakers students — anyone who can be snatched off the streets in mass killings that one captured gang member said were designed to "cause terror." The body dumps may also be a tactic for drawing law enforcement to disrupt the activities of a cartel's rival in its home or disputed territory a security analyst and former official in Mexico's CISEN intelligence agency "It puts the authorities in a reactive mode," Hope said Authorities said at least a few of the latest victims in Cadereyta had tattoos of the Santa Muerte cult popular among drug traffickers There have been 74 killings in the first four months of this year Cadereyta municipality compared to 27 over the same period in 2011 according to prosecutor's figures in Nuevo Leon state "Cadereyta is a place where everyone is fighting it out," Hope said The attack follows the discovery of 14 men left in a van in downtown Nuevo Laredo on April 17 and 23 people found hanged or decapitated in the same border city on May 4 The mutilated bodies of 18 dismembered bodied were left near Mexico's second-largest city Among the nine who were identified in that attack were bricklayers while Guadalajara has long been controlled by gangs loyal to Sinaloa Zeta member Juan Carlos Antonio Mercado was arrested in Guadalajara last week in the kidnapping of 12 people He told reporters that he and accomplices had been kidnapping people since mid-April at random and held them with the intent of dumping their bodies in the city center on May 10 but the police presence kept them from doing so Prosecutors in Jalisco said the kidnapping plot fell apart when some victims escaped It appeared to be linked to the discovery of the 18 dismembered bodies the bodies were found near a white stone arch welcoming visitors to the town of San Juan which was spray-painted with "100% Zeta." The fearsome cartel was founded by deserters from the Mexican army's special forces as the enforcement arm of the Gulf Cartel which historically dominated northeastern Mexico and the border along Texas causing a bloody battle for territory that the Zetas have been winning The weakened Gulf Cartel has started to align itself with Sinaloa to battle the Zetas were most likely brought to the spot and dropped from the back of a dump truck The victims could have been killed as long as two days ago at another location about 105 miles (175 kilometers) west-southwest of McAllen and 75 miles (125 kilometers) southwest of the Roma Nuevo Laredo state Attorney General Adrian de la Garza said San Juan is known as the cradle of baseball in Mexico who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case said some of the bodies were badly decomposed and some had their whole arms or lower legs missing De la Garza said he did not rule out the possibility that the victims were U.S.-bound migrants Authorities said they also may have been brought from other states because there had been no recent reports of mass disappearances in in Nuevo Leon state The two cartels have committed "irrational acts of inhumane and inadmissible violence in their dispute," the federal Attorney General's Office said in statement late Sunday reiterating its offer of $2 million rewards for information leading to the arrests of Guzman and Zeta leaders Heriberto Lazacano Lazcano and Miguel Trevino Drug violence has killed more than 47,500 people since President Felipe Calderon launched a stepped-up offensive when he took office in December 2006 The offensive has seen the two cartels emerge as Mexico's two most powerful At least one of the two cartels is present in nearly all of Mexico's 32 states Their war started in earnest last fall in Veracruz a strategic smuggling state with a giant Gulf port A drug gang allied with Sinaloa left 35 bodies on a main boulevard in the city of Veracruz in September The goal apparently was to take over territory that had been dominated by the Zetas Twenty-six bodies were then found in November in Guadalajara Associated Press writer Michael Weissenstein in Mexico City contributed to this report Pablo Cote holds a photo of his deceased father of the same name in July 2013 in Tlaxcala Cote was kidnapped while driving back from the U.S border to the east-central state of Tlaxcala part of the mass killing of 193 bus passengers and other travelers by the Zetas Local police in the city of San Fernando in northern Mexico were involved in the 2011 massacres of 193 mainly Central American migrants whose bodies were found in mass graves The claim appeared in a memo sent by Mexico's Attorney General's Office to The National Security Archive a Washington D.C.-based research organization that solicited the information under Mexican transparency laws It published the memo on its website on Monday and highlighted the similarities in the case to what happened with the 43 teachers college students who disappeared in southern Guerrero state in September The students were abducted by local police linked to a drug cartel in the city of Iguala and handed over to the members of the Guerreros Unidos gang who after killing them are believed to have burned their bodies and dumped the remains into a river The case has generated angry protests in Mexico and abroad over the alleged involvement of police and corrupt officials Reports have emerged of mayors and police forces in cities in parts of Mexico being on the payroll of cartels a city of 60,000 inhabitants in Tamaulipas state near the Texas border local police worked as lookouts for the brutal Zetas drug cartel as well as turning a blind eye to cartel activity according to members of the Zetas cited in the memo The Zetas were fighting for control of human trafficking networks with the Gulf Cartel In 2011 there were many cases of the mass kidnapping of migrants heading north to try to cross illegally into the United States Officials have said that most of the bodies found in and around San Fernando belong to migrants kidnapped off buses and killed by the Zetas some because they refused to work as drug mules detained Zetas told authorities that local police helped in the "intercepting of people." This is the first time the Attorney General's Office has declassified documents related to the mass killings of migrants perpetrated in northern Mexico in recent years These are the killing of 72 migrants in San Fernando in August 2010 the discovery of at least 193 bodies in 47 clandestine graves in San Fernando between April and May of 2011 and the discovery of 49 human torsos in Cadereyta in the neighboring state of Nuevo Leon in May 2012 The Foundation for Justice and the Democratic Rule of Law a group that advises relatives of the victims in San Fernando had already denounced the alleged participation of authorities in the crimes told The Associated Press that the memo confirms "the degree of participation by the police." "This is a very important step toward finding the truth," said Delgadillo lamenting that the declassified memo didn't give much more information than that 18 local police officers were being investigated the foundation signed an agreement with the Attorney General's Office a team of Argentine forensic scientists and other non-governmental organizations to identify and find the cause of death of the at least 314 migrants killed in the three massacres about 200 of the bodies remain unidentified Become an NPR sponsor Mexico's cartels continue to display bodies next to narcomantas...