Mexico's Largest Refinery Set to Restart at a Third of Capacity
- Salina Cruz to resume production this week after deadly fire
- Country’s appetite for imports likely to remain for a while
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Mexico’s largest refinery is expected to restart this week at third of its capacity, but the country’s appetite for imported fuel isn’t likely to go away anytime soon.
The Salina Cruz refinery in the southern state of Oaxaca, which went offline after a deadly fire June 14, will begin processing 110,000 barrels a day of crude this week, a spokeswoman for state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos said in an email. She asked not to be identified, citing company policy. The loss of the 330,000 barrel-a-day plant took the country’s refining production to the lowest level in decades and forced Mexico to ramp up fuel imports.