Olmega refinery of the mouth is restarted after shutdown

The state -owned company has confirmed that the satellite communication failure was responsible for the failure of a work outage last week in the Pemex of Tabasco.

In the dose bogas, in the municipality of Paraso, The construction of the Olmega refinery started in August 2019 During the administration of former President Andrez Manuel Lopez Oborader. When it started operating in 2022, the refinery tests before the entire business operation.

According to Pemex, the incident occurred during the electrical load balance procedures because the operators adjusted a turbo generator. Satellite communication with a ventilation control device fails, which stimulate the automatic operation of the coopenation plant’s thermal recovery units. This led to a common steam failure, which immediately stopped processing plants.

As a result of the incident, “the power load of the campus was reduced from 130 to 65 MW per hour, resulting in Case Turbo generators closed on April 26, 2025 in 00:59.”

Pemex quickly pointed out that shutdown staff, nearby communities, refinery or environment were not in danger.

When asked during a press conference, he thought that shutdown was the cause of sabotage? President Claudia Shinebam rejected the possibility But he said the investigation was still necessary.

“(It) must be investigated, but the refinery is not like that now is not in service. This is nothing serious,” he said, adding that the refinement produces 100,000 barrels a day.

In February, Olmega processed 6,797 barrels a day, nothing in January, after the company reportedly had problems relating to salt and water content in crude oil pemex pumps.

Between 2024 and 2025, 4 million barrels of barrels of refinery were transported as main products, diesel, between 2024 and 2025, according to the Dos Bogas National Port System Administration. In the same period, 7.6 million processed barrels were imported from hydrocarbons, mostly from diesel, US and other Mexican ports.

The refinery has the ability to process 340,000 barrels a day. Pamex CEO, Victor Rodriguez Bodhila, said last month that Olmega would reach full potential this year.

With reports from L Heraldo de TabascoOvarian ReoidAnd Economist