With information from A. Alegría
The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, August 4, 2024, p. 4
* The Olmeca Refinery is the first to be built in 45 years. The previous one was the Salina Cruz refinery in Oaxaca, which began operating in 1979.
* Once it reaches its full potential, it will process 340 thousand barrels of oil per day, which is higher than Salina Cruz, which is 330 thousand.
* Pemex indicated that 100 thousand barrels per day were refined last month.
* The civil works were inaugurated in July 2022. In the same month of 2023, the entire complex was opened and testing began.
* In 2019, it was announced that it would have a budget of 8.8 billion dollars. In the end, 16,816 million dollars were allocated.
