can process up to 285,000 barrels per day (bpd) According to Veracruz civil protection officials the fire was successfully extinguished without any injuries Pemex also confirmed that its staff and facilities were not affected by the incident Authorities have not disclosed the cause of the fire Pemex has not commented on whether the event disrupted production at the facility a separate fire occurred at Pemex’s Salina Cruz refinery in Oaxaca also reported no injuries or property damage according to local civil protection officials Both incidents highlight recent challenges faced by Pemex’s infrastructure though safety measures ensured no reported casualties or structural damages Despite queries regarding potential production impacts at the Minatitlán refinery Pemex declined to provide additional details when contacted by Reuters No further updates have been released about the fire at Salina Cruz local authorities have assured that the incidents are under control This reflects the operational measures in place to safeguard workers and facilities during such emergencies The swift response at both Minatitlán and Salina Cruz limited risks to personnel and surrounding infrastructure A fire at Pemex’s Minatitlán refinery in Veracruz was extinguished without injuries as confirmed by Pemex and local authorities which occurred at the refinery capable of processing up to 285,000 bpd Pemex stated that neither personnel nor facilities were impacted A separate fire also broke out at the Salina Cruz refinery in Oaxaca this week Local civil protection officials confirmed no injuries or damages Pemex has not commented on production impacts from either incident Fire & Safety Journal Americas is a publication of Centurian Media Limited Registered office: 71-75 Shelton Street London Greater London WC2H 9JQ UNITED KINGDOMOperating office: The Maidstone Studios Centurian Media Limited (CML) is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer along with all qualified applicants that we receive for employment fixed contract or freelance projects receive consideration without regard to race CML is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status Website hosted and maintained by Grass Media Web Design ICO registration number: CSN0536342 All content copyright Centurian Media Ltd 2019-2025 Reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez and Diego Ore; Aditional reporting by Adriana Barrera; Editing by David Evans and Stephen Coates Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab , opens new tab Browse an unrivalled portfolio of real-time and historical market data and insights from worldwide sources and experts. , opens new tabScreen for heightened risk individual and entities globally to help uncover hidden risks in business relationships and human networks. © 2025 Reuters. All rights reserved The massacre of 14 people at a bar in Minatitlán on Friday night could have been a revenge attack or the result of the failure to make an extortion payment “We have two lines of investigation,” Jorge Winckler Ortiz told the television program La Nota Dura “One of them is revenge due to the possibility of conflict over the sale of drugs had two businesses where she sold one criminal group’s illegal products and shortly after she sold the competition’s products,” he said “The other line of investigation we have is that the cobro de piso [extortion payment] wasn’t made.” The attorney general explained that the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and Los Zetas are involved in a turf war in Veracruz which has contributed to the current insecurity in the state The deceased person to whom Winckler was referring was a trans woman known as “La Becky” who owned two bars in Minatitlán, including La Potra, where Friday’s attack occurred The attorney general told a press conference earlier yesterday that authorities had received statements indicating that “La Becky,” whose real name was Julio César González Reyna As he leads the investigation into the case Winckler is under pressure to resign as a result of accusations of corruption and collusion with former state governor Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares President López Obrador said yesterday that “relevant authorities will investigate the attorney general’s conduct,” charging that “the fact that the previous governor [Yunes] left him there and that he’s acting to protect the old regime He added: “What must be made very clear is that we won’t act as cover if there’s a [criminal] complaint against anyone it will run its course because we’re not going to be protecting anybody we have to clean up the corruption in Veracruz.” The president admitted that he doesn’t know Winckler personally before adding: “but I do know he who was governor and if he’s linked to the past governor we have to look at things carefully because Veracruz had a problem with crime being supported by the government.” He also said Winckler “is not highly recommended.” who was sworn in as governor for López Obrador’s Morena party on December 1 announced last week that Winckler would not attend yesterday’s security meeting with federal authorities due to the corruption allegations he faces which include protecting corrupt regional prosecutors and manipulating statistics for crimes including kidnappings and femicides Despite the possibility that he will be investigated Winckler said he hadn’t considered quitting I was democratically elected by five different parties and I believe that the results of my work are there for everybody to see,” he said However, there has been an increase in violent crime in Veracruz since the new government took office, including a CJNG offensive that has claimed the lives of four police officers López Obrador nevertheless defended García claiming that the current insecurity is the result of lingering corruption in state authorities despite the change of government he asserted that with “the support of the people of Veracruz” and “the support of the federal government,” things will change in the state Don’t forget we’re very perseverant so corruption is going to end in Veracruz Source: El Financiero (sp), E-Consulta (sp)  ADVERTISE WITH MND COMMUNITY GUIDELINES Subscription FAQ's Privacy Policy Mexico News Daily - Property of Tavana LLC The Mexican government’s decision to expropriate the country’s oil in 1938 was sparked by uprisings tied to the labor and environmental abuses of foreign companies If the state-run energy company is privatized reform will have to include stepped-up environmental monitoring and control On August 16, an eight-inch pipeline ruptured at Mexico’s oldest refinery in Minatitlán in the south of Veracruz state. Even as oily wastes poured into the Coatzacoalcos River, stretching out twenty miles by the day’s end a group of long-time residents meeting in this same city recalled the long damaging toll that the petrochemical industry has inflicted on the environment and people of this region But their harrowing past and present have barely registered in the many headlines that Mexican oil was making in this nation’s capital talk has swirled around the new Mexican president’s proposal to (more or less) privatize the country’s oil industry for well over half a century run by the Mexican state This debate over President Enrique Peña Nieto’s plan needs to start considering what any reform may mean for the environment and well being of those in places like Minatitlán There’s no better starting point for this reflection than the expropriation of 1938 when Mexico became the first developing nation to expel Western-owned oil companies and convert its holdings into a government enterprise Many Mexicans celebrate this birth of Petróleos Mexicanos in nearly the same terms as that country’s revolution of the 1910s; it is a modern Declaration of Independence from foreign powers leftists like former presidential candidate Andres Manuel López Obrador have charged that the reform amounts to “treason,” while Peña Nieto defends his plan as actually fulfilling the intentions of Lázaro Cárdenas the president who signed off on the state takeover is that Cárdenas’s decision to expropriate was sparked by local uprisings in oil refineries and fields that were deeply tied to the labor and environmental abuses of foreign companies Excursions into Mexican archives predating 1938 by the historian Myrna Santiago as well as myself have demonstrated just how extensive these abuses were Beyond the refineries and oil fields of Veracruz and Tamaulipas themselves massive oil spills regularly threatened the livelihood of fishermen and farmers the smoke and fumes that billowed from inside oil operations stoking an anger and resistance that by 1938 made expropriation seem the best solution Today’s American readers will find the arguments favoring Peña Nieto’s energy reform familiar They center around the flaws of the state-run enterprise: its corruption and inefficiency and its monopoly in the national market for consumer goods such as gasoline the debates have hardly touched upon the local consequences of this reform for regions that will be most affected like the towns around the mouth of the Coatzacoalcos River where 70 percent of Mexico’s petrochemical production has gravitated Already a few weeks ago, the sale of a huge petrochemical complex at Pajaritos to a private firm has led to widespread rumors about impending layoffs, and lit a fire under the feet of the region’s labor leaders As for the environmental impacts in store from any reform these will only add to those accrued under Pemex itself The damaging hand of state-run oil and petrochemical production on this region was made abundantly clear on August 16 at a gathering I conducted at the Universidad Veracruzana in Minatitlán a representative array of citizens and Pemex spokespeople shared recollections of just how deeply this industry had affected their region Though Pemex representatives argued that its attention to the environment had much improved starting in the early 1990s they made little effort to deny the flood of critical testimony that followed Fisherman and biologists reported plummeting populations of fish all along the river Those living in neighborhoods near the refinery talked of regular visitations by fumes Both they and doctors spoke of unusual concentrations of childhood leukemia and other deadly ailments around plants and in the region as a whole a dearth of statistics or other studies—even more sparse than in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley”—has kept most of these claims in the realm of the “merely” anecdotal Though Pemex itself supplies between 30 and 40 percent of the federal government’s budget state monitoring of its environmental impacts in this area remains feeble Mexico’s counterpart to the Environmental Protection Agency there remains as yet only a single person charged with overseeing the region’s industry A general consensus emerging from this meeting was that however good Pemex’s and Mexico’s environmental policies may appear on paper they are not being effectively applied (“no se cumplen”) Even if the monitoring and hands-on regulation were suddenly stepped up recent experiences in the United States make it all too easy to imagine what further calamities will be inflicted upon this and other resource-rich regions of Mexico once anything like Peña Nieto’s reform goes through One stated intention of the reform is to invite new investments in technologies that can open up the nation’s deep-water oil reserves—the kind of drilling done by Deepwater Horizon with such disastrous results along our own Gulf coast whose track record in the United States has been The looming prospect of further environmental disasters means that at the very least stepped-up environmental monitoring and control should form an integral part of any reform of Mexico’s oil industry At best—though this possibility seems more remote—the reform should include policies as well as a clear timetable to transition Mexico away from fossil fuels toward more renewable energy sources The good news is that many in southern Veracruz already know the drawbacks of having an oil industry next door and that some of them have been organizing aside from Greenpeace Mexico and a 2007 visit from Global Community Monitor they have received little support either from national or international environmental groups Those Americans who have become so concerned about fracking or oil drilling or climate change need to lift their eyes beyond the confines of their own local and national debates far-reaching contest over the future of Mexican oil and gas boding a new depth of devastation to the humanity and ecology of this far corner of the earth Christopher Sellers is co-editor of the recent book Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World, as well as author of Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science. He is a professor of history at Stony Brook University in New York Petróleos Mexicanos' (Pemex) Lazaro Cardenas refinery is located in Minatitlan Petróleos Mexicanos’ (Pemex) Lazaro Cardenas refinery is located in Minatitlan Pemex completed a $3.62bn modernisation project of the refinery in July 2011 The project was scheduled for completion in 2008 but was delayed The cost of the project also doubled due to an increase in raw material and equipment prices The modernisation was part of the clean fuels programme aimed at upgrading outdated facilities in Mexico The programme will enable production of low-sulphur gasoline to meet global environmental standards The government plans to invest further in facilities operated by Pemex to upgrade them to global standards The modernisation of the refinery was launched in 2003 It included construction of 11 processing plants and associated facilities The processing plants included a sulphur recovery plant fluid catalytic cracker complex (42,000bpd) atmospheric and vacuum distilling plant (150,000bpd and 60,000bpd) hydro-desulphurisation plant (37,000bpd) and amine regeneration units Nine of the 11 processing plants specialise in crude oil processing The refinery now consists of 27 plants covering an area of more than 800ha The project also included installation of three spherical vessels for storing propylene and butane The 550t vessels have a diameter of 53ft and are supported by 12 cylindrical legs The project upgraded the refinery’s processing capacity from 160,000 barrels a day (bpd) of crude oil to 285,000bpd Gasoline production as a result will increase from 45,000 barrels to 93,000 barrels The project will reduce Mexico’s dependence on fuel imports It will also save more than $5bn annually for Pemex Construction of the project was divided into several packages Initial works included surface soil improvement as the site contained soft clay and loose sand Dynamic compaction and compaction grouting were carried out to ensure the ground had enough load bearing capacity for the foundations Deep soil treatment was followed by the construction of foundations ABB provided automation services for the project under a $9.1m contract It supplied its Foundation fieldbus technology including installation of field instrumentation compressor protection systems and a new distributed control system ABB’s scope of work included automation electromechanical and civil engineering works The new equipment replaced the 30-year old pneumatic instrumentation installed at the refinery tests and adjustments were earlier carried out manually by operators With the implementation of the new technology predictive maintenance and maintenance scheduling was made possible The technology improved safety and emergency responses by alerting operators of instrument failures Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for the project was awarded to the Odebrecht Engenharia Industrial and Técnicas Reunidas consortium The $635m contract included the construction of the sulphur recovery plant jointly owned by Fluor Corporation and Empresas ICA Sociedad Controladora was awarded a $690m contract to build a water treatment plant integrate all units of the refinery and provide auxiliary services A $534m contract was awarded to Dragados Industrial to provide engineering and construction services Dragados worked on the catalytic distillation units CIMESA was contracted to carry out soil improvement and deep foundation works for the project Enerpac provided lifting and positioning services for installation of spherical storage vessels Samsung Engineering provided EPC services for the alkylation unit of the refinery OMB Valves was subcontracted by Samsung Engineering to supply forged steel valves for the project A $2m contract was awarded to Graham Corporation for supplying an ejector system for the refinery instrumentation and control works were carried out by Kentech Mexico Mina-Trico was also involved in the project Give your business an edge with our leading industry insights View all newsletters from across the GlobalData Media network. Petroleos Mexicanos is offering more cargoes of oil to its customers after fires struck two of its refineries, hampering its plan to keep crude supplies to produce fuels domestically. Pemex’s PMI trading arm told some US refiners that it may have more crude to sell than initially expected during May, according to people with knowledge of the situation. That’s a change from earlier this month, when the state oil company told customers it would sell less oil and keep more for its own refineries.  Pemex didn’t immediately return messages seeking comment.  Mexico’s decision to export more is sending prices of competing sour oils lower, with Mars crude produced in the Gulf of Mexico now trading at $1.70 less than benchmark Nymex West Texas Intermediate, according to Syntex Energy. That’s the widest discount since October. Prices of Southern Green Canyon reached the lowest in more than a year. Mexico’s refineries had been operating near their highest utilization rates in six years until a series of setbacks in recent days. Over the weekend, a boiler at the Salina Cruz refinery caught fire, newspaper Reforma reported, and on Friday the Minatitlan refinery had a fire and explosion, according to La Jornada. Earlier this month, Pemex also said that the new Dos Bocas refinery would reach full production by September, six months later than previously expected.  in one of the worst slayings to hit Mexico since President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office.The unidentified assailants opened fire on Friday night after coming to look for a man at a bar in the southeast of Minatitlan a spokesman for the government of Veracruz said.Seven men five women and a child died in the shooting which occurred close to Minatitlan's oil refinery one of six run by state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) the state government said in a statement.The motive for the killings was unclear the spokesman said.The man the gunmen were seeking was identified as the owner of a bar in the city The attack took place during a family celebration.It was not immediately clear if the man owned the bar where the attack occurred nor whether he was present at the time.Hugo Gutierrez said on Twitter that an operation had been launched to capture the people responsible for the killings.The oil-rich state of Veracruz has been convulsed by gang violence and political corruption scandals for several years.Lopez Obrador took office in December vowing to reduce violence in Mexico where more than 200,000 people have been killed since the end of 2006 in brutal turf wars between drug cartels and their clashes with security forces.After reaching record levels in 2018 surpassing previous-year levels in the first three months of the new government official government data shows.The president was due to visit Veracruz on Sunday according to an official schedule published before the attack took place.Reporting by Dave Graham; Editing by Kenneth Maxwell State oil company Pemex is facing renewed scrutiny of its safety record after fires at three separate facilities on Thursday left at least eight people injured and several missing The first fire started around noon at the Lázaro Cárdenas Refinery Pemex said in a statement that it was caused by the runoff of product onto a hot surface and was quickly put out by firefighters but there was no damage to the plant or interruption of activities a second fire broke out just 19 kilometers away in the drilling equipment of the Tuzandépetl Strategic Storage Plant Despite the deployment of multiple fire crews the blaze spread to other wells in the facility and continued to burn throughout the afternoon Pemex reported that three workers were injured and five more were missing One worker was reported dead: Family and friends of petroleum engineer Carlos Ascensión Morales confirmed Friday morning that Morales had passed away due to the accident Personnel from the Defense Ministry guarded the entrances to the area through the night and local municipalities opened four shelters Pemex issued a community alert for a third fire in the crude distillation unit at its Deer Park refinery in Texas The blaze was quickly controlled and the extent of the damage is unclear The company is under pressure to boost productivity after more than a decade of annual losses It is currently the most indebted of all major oil companies with a total debt of $105 billion at the end of September around $8 billion of which is due this year Pemex has also faced several major safety scandals in recent years. Most notably, a fire at its offshore rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2021 caused five deaths and cut Mexico’s oil production by a quarter the company drew international criticism after a large gas explosion near its offshore rig in the Bay of Campeche The decision comes after the plant was taken over by the state-controlled petroleum company Pemex in December Mexico’s government has ordered the expropriation of Air Liquide’s hydrogen plant at a Pemex oil refinery citing the need to ensure Mexico’s “energy sovereignty” The French company bought the hydrogen plant under the previous administration The announcement was made by Mexico’s energy ministry late on Thursday 8 February claiming that the third-party supply of hydrogen risks disrupting production at the Tula refinery Oil refineries use hydrogen to reduce the sulphur content in petroleum products such as diesel Air Liquide has 15 days from the publication of the expropriation order to present its response to the ministry’s legal office President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has attempted to increase state control of Mexico’s energy sector through Pemex and the state electricity company CFE since coming to power in 2018 He has also tried to reduce the country’s reliance on diesel and gas imports by ramping up domestic production Don’t let policy changes catch you off guard Stay proactive with real-time data and expert analysis the centrist former President Enrique Pen Nieto sold Pemex’s refining arm under a 20-year contract to Air Liquide in 2017 The French industrial gases and services company was to supply hydrogen for Tula’s operations to lower costs and boost efficiency the Tula facility is Pemex’s second- largest refinery currently in operation In December, the Obrador administration ordered Pemex to take control of the hydrogen plant The President declared the hydrogen supply from the plant was a matter of “public interest” Obrador has accused opponents on the political right of rigging the energy market in favour of corporate elites and his policy decisions have led to trade disputes with the US and Canada In similar fashion, the government spooked investors in 2023 when it took over part of Grupo Mexico’s railway View all newsletters from across the GlobalData Media network A presumed regional chief of the notorious Los Zetas cartel in southern Veracruz was arrested in Oaxaca on Thursday also known as “El Comandante Reyes,” was believed to be in charge of the gang’s operations in 12 municipalities in Veracruz Veracruz Public Security Secretary Hugo Gutiérrez Maldonado recognized the Oaxaca government’s efforts in the apprehension of the gang leader and said the two states maintain a close relationship to combat crime have been cited as central to the rise in insecurity in southern Veracruz The cartel’s territorial conflict with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel was believed to have been the cause of the massacre of 14 people at a party in Minatitlán last April. In August, a group of armed men killed 25 people when they burned down a bar in Coatzacoalcos Both towns were under the control of José Carmen N. according to the Veracruz Public Security Secretariat Source: El Financiero (sp) This website uses cookies primarily for visitor analytics. Certain pages will ask you to fill in contact details to receive additional information. On these pages you have the option of having the site log your details for future visits. Indicating you want the site to remember your details will place a cookie on your device. To view our full cookie policy, please click here You can also view it at any time by going to our Contact Us page Pemex said the first fire broke out on a drilling rig at its Tuzandepetl Strategic Storage Plant in the municipality of Ixhuatlan The company said internal firefighters arrived at the scene promptly to extinguish the blaze and were able to quickly bring it under control Three injured workers were discovered at the site and were transported to a local hospital where they were said to be in stable conditions.Pemex said that five other workers who were near the drilling rig at the time of the fire were missing and search efforts began immediately During search efforts over two days following the incident Pemex said that two bodies were discovered but that three workers remained missing   In another statement later in the evening of February 23 Pemex said that a separate fire had erupted at its Minatitlán Refinery Five workers were initially injured in the fire however two of them later died as a result of their injuries on February 24 Pemex said that the three other injured workers were continuing to receive treatment in hospital.While the exact cause of the Minatitlán Refinery fire has not been determined initial reports suggest it was possibly caused by the spillage of product on a hot surface Print this page | E-mail this page Hazardex Live 2024 event review Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information Pemex’s refinery output was 485,478 barrels a day and equivalent to 30 percent of its total capacity The country has seen refining output slide to record low levels as maintenance has stalled Pemex’s refinery budget has been slashed and the company no longer produces enough light crude oil to feed its plants 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 said it will invest $28 million in the island's international terminal between now and 2028 In an exclusive interview with This is Cozumel said the money would be used to maintain and further improve the terminal and that more details will be released in due course The announcement was made as part of ASUR's "Master Development Plan" for all nine of its airports in the south-east of Mexico which they said was recently approved by Mexico's Ministry for Communications and Transport Some $240,000 was already invested in improvements at the terminal in 2013 including remodeling passenger arrival and departure areas a new facade and an extended walkway roof to protect passengers from the sun and rain ASUR is a New York Stock Exchange listed Mexican company that runs the airports of Cozumel Tapachula and Minatitlan in the southeast of Mexico They also own a 50% stake in the company that operates Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan See our Transport section for more information and to make reservations for Cozumel flights and airlines or Cozumel airport transfers. 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Tehuantepec 2019 and is expected to start operating at the end of the president’s term The CIIT was created in order to implement a logistics platform that integrates the provision of port administration services carried out by the competent entities in the Ports of Coatzacoalcos Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave and Salina Cruz Oaxaca and their interconnection by rail transport as well as any other action that allows to contribute to the development of the region of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec The CIIT project seeks to modernize the railroad tracks of the isthmus Construcciones Urales in conjunction with Regiomontana de Construcción y Servicios The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is the narrowest portion of Mexico and North America in general separating the Pacific Ocean from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean According to the United States Department of Commerce, Spanish efforts to make this an interoceanic trade route date back to the early 1800s, and a rail line across the Isthmus operated profitably between 1907 and the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 Now the López Obrador Administration intends to make the Trans-Isthmus route competitive with the Canal thus promoting regional economic growth in the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz The Trans-Istmo project will create a modernized and improved Multimodal Interoceanic Corridor that will provide an alternative to the Canal for northbound and Post-Panamax shipping the Mexican Government seeks to modernize the Isthmus of Tehuantepec railway; expand cargo handling and storage capacity in the ports of Coatzacoalcos Oaxaca; expand the highway from two to four lanes; improve the Minatitlán and Ixtepec airports; establish a fiber optic telecommunications connection and cellular / data connectivity; and build a gas pipeline for commercial and private use 10 development poles will be created to attract investment from the private sector the 76 municipalities of Oaxaca and Veracruz involved will reduce their value added tax (VAT) and income tax rates in addition to offering oil at reduced prices In March 2021, President López Obrador announced that the Secretary of the Navy (Semar) together with the governments of the states of Veracruz will be responsible for managing this corridor once the project is completed Redacción: 7224059128info@opportimes.com A strong magnitude 4.6 earthquake hit 82 km (51 mi) away from Minatitlán, Estado de Veracruz-Llave,  Mexico 2025 at 1.40 am local time (America/Mexico City GMT -6) The quake had a moderate depth of 142 km (88 mi) and was not felt (or at least not reported so).