Through a video shared on his Twitter account, the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced that the Dos Bocas Olmec refineryin Tabascowill begin to produce gasoline from next July.
On a working tour of his native state, the president assured that the refinery, located in the municipality of Paraíso, and which is one of the most outstanding projects of his administration, is already in the integration and testing phase, as was shown in a video with aspects of the facility facilities, first inaugurated in July 2022.
“We are already in the integration and testing phase of the Dos Bocas refinery, in Tabasco. In July we started producing gasoline,” López Obrador wrote on the social network with an instrumental rock song in the background, composed by Niklas Johansson, ‘Defenders Unite’.
We are already in the integration and testing phase at the Dos Bocas Refinery, in Tabasco. In July we began to produce gasoline. pic.twitter.com/o5OjSTEFU4
– Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) March 17, 2023
In this regard, during the morning conference of the president this Thursday, the Secretary of Energy, dew nahleannounced that the Olmeca refinery will start its first refining train in July, while the second will start operations in September, this to seek to stabilize in three more months.
On this, the person in charge of the work pointed out that the project finished its construction stage on July 1 of last year and that this 2023 is in the process of testing, starting and integrating lines, with an approximate cost of 12 thousand 600 million of dollars.
Once it formally starts operations, it is expected that the Dos Bocas refinery will process 340,000 barrels per day, 170,000 of them gasoline and 120,000 more ultra-low sulfur diesel, equivalent to 30 percent of the necessary fuels. for consumption in Mexicoa figure that is currently imported from other countries.
