Pemex Axes $100 Mln Contract with Odebrecht
Mexican state-owned oil company Pemex said in a filing on Tuesday it canceled a 1.8-billion peso ($100-million) contract with Odebrecht SA, a Brazilian engineering company that has admitted paying bribes in a dozen countries in recent years. Odebrecht has admitted in a settlement with U.S. and Brazilian prosecutors to paying bribes across 12 countries to win contracts. According to the U.S. court ruling, between 2001 and 2016, Odebrecht paid about $788 million in bribes in countries including Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela.
Pemex: Tula Refinery Fire Doused, Output Unaffected
Mexico's state-run oil company Pemex said on Wednesday that an early morning fire at it's second biggest refinery left no workers injured and did not affect production. Local television footage showed an intense ball of fire around 2 a.m. local time at the Miguel Hidalgo refinery on the outskirts of the city of Tula and featuring a crude processing capacity of 315,000 barrels per day. "(The fire) occurred in an area completely away from production facilities," said a company spokesperson, adding that the fire was quickly extinguished. (Reporting by David Alire Garcia)
Pemex Tula Oil Refinery Back to Normal After Fire
Mexican state-owned oil company Pemex said on Friday that it had contained a fire at its Miguel Hidalgo refinery and that the facility was back to normal operations. No workers were injured, and the facility near the city of Tula in central Hidalgo state sustained only minor damages, the company said in a statement. The morning fire ignited in a leaking hydrogen compressor at the refinery's residual hydrodesulfurization plant. The refinery, Pemex's second-biggest, has a crude processing capacity of 315,000 barrels per day. (Reporting by David Alire Garcia)
Pemex to Boost Fuel Output at Tula Refinery
Mexico's state-owned oil company Pemex said on Wednesday it will boost gasoline and diesel output by almost 70 percent at its Miguel Hidalgo refinery, part of a $4.25 billion upgrade the company expects to complete by the beginning of 2018. The upgrade will add a coking plant and allow the refinery <C}RO7309413882>, located near the city of Tula in central Hidalgo state, to boost fuel output from 180,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 300,000 bpd, the company said in a post on its Twitter page. It will allow Pemex's second-biggest refinery by crude processing capacity to also lower its output of less desirable fuel oil by 10 percent…
