Pemex issued the following announcement on July 25.
Progress is made in the rehabilitation and repair of 24 processing plants in Salina Cruz refinery to increase fuel production
In 18 months of this administration, the fight against the theft of hydrocarbons has been reduced by 92 per cent in the Oaxaca region
During his tour of the state of Oaxaca, the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, visited the “Ing. Antonio Dovalí Jaime ”from Salina Cruz, where he was accompanied by the Secretary of Energy, Rocío Nahle García and the CEO of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Octavio Romero Oropeza, who explained to the Chief Executive the progress in the rehabilitation works of the refinery and achievements in combating fuel theft in the region.
The head of Pemex explained that the plan of re- qualification of the National Refining System, particularly in the case of this Salina Cruz refinery, is to increase the refining capacity to its original production or the closest thing to it of 330 thousand barrels per day, since it is a strategic facility from where fuel is supplied to the states of the Mexican Pacific coast and from where crude is exported to Asia.
He explained that for this year the budget for the rehabilitation of the National Refining System, which includes the six refineries in the country amounts to 22 thousand 905 million pesos, of which 3 thousand 193 million pesos correspond to this refinery.
Romero Oropeza indicated that at this refinery, at the beginning of the administration, 13 plants were detected with a lag in repairs, to which 10 more plants were added in 2019 also in need of intervention, and one more in 2021, due to the repair schedule , giving a total of 24 plants that require a major repair.
He explained that of said inventory, 5 plants were repaired in 2019. 9 plants are scheduled for this year; in 2021 8 more will have to be intervened and, finally, 2 to be repaired in 2022, which will have ended the lag of major repairs to process plants.
In the refinery that was built 41 years ago, the CEO of PEMEX specified that in 18 months of this administration, fuel theft in the region has been reduced by 92 percent, since it went from 418 barrels per day in 2018 to only 33 barrels per day for the first 6 months of this year.
He also highlighted that clandestine captures decreased from 183 in 2018 to only 31 so far in 2020. This thanks to the strategy and coordinated work of the Secretaries of National Defense, Navy and the National Guard, in coordination with the Strategic Safeguard staff of Petróleos Mexicanos.
The CEO of PEMEX also thanked the Governor of the State of Oaxaca, Alejandro Murat Hinojosa for the coordination and support provided in everything related to the activities of Petróleos Mexicanos in this entity.
The head of PEMEX reiterated that despite the international oil crisis, an enormous effort has been made in the state production company to pay 41,066 million pesos to suppliers, of which 80% correspond to suppliers and service providers. of the National Refining System.
The event was also attended by the Secretary of the Navy, Admiral José Rafael Ojeda Durán; the Governor of the State of Oaxaca, Alejandro Murat Hinojosa; the municipal president of Salina Cruz, Juan Carlos Atecas Altamirano and the person in charge of the General Directorate of Pemex Transformación Industrial, Jorge Luis Basaldúa Ramos.
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