Dos Bocas to Produce 164,000 Barrels of Gas Per Day by September
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador also confirmed that the Pemex refinery will begin production at the beginning of April
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AMLO’s Noncontroversial Megaproject
Ever since the first cross-country railroad from Tapachula on the Guatemalan border to the Juárez at the U.S, border, developing the isthmus into a Panama-type of interoceanic link has been in the plans of numerous Mexican governments
Read moreNuevo León Threatens Closure of Pemex Cadereyta Plant
In December 2020, the same refinery suffered two gas explosions, causing injuries to five people
Read moreMexico Pumps Another 47 Million Pesos into Dos Bocas
Dos Bocas originally received 46.2 billion pesos in the construction budget for the year 2019, 45.5 billion pesos in 2020, 113.7 billion pesos in 2021 and 60.9 billion pesos in 2022, with an additional 47.2 billion pesos now allotted to the project for 2023
Read morePemex Liable to Pay $16.7 Billion in Debt before End of 2024
By KELIN DILLON According to the new 2023-2027 Business Plan Report presented by Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Pemex must pay back more than $16.7 billion in debt amortizations before the end of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year term, which is set to end in 2024. The report revealed that Pemex was able to put
Read moreDos Bocas Workers Protest Unjustified Dismissals
By KELIN DILLON Just 12 days after the “inauguration of the first construction stage” of Mexico’s controversial Dos Bocas refinery, approximately 200 laborers contracted to work on the Tabasco-based project protested their unjustified dismissal from the project outside of the under-construction refinery’s gate on Wednesday, July 13. According to the protestors, the workers were initially hired by Control Ingeniería y
Read moreLoret de Mola Showcases AMLO’s Lies about Dos Bocas Refinery
By KELIN DILLON Several days after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) inaugurated the controversial Dos Bocas Refinery on Friday, July 1, Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola released a scathing two-part analysis of purported lies featured in López Obrador’s inaugural address, revealing apparent inconsistencies in AMLO’s contentious Tabascan pet project. According to Loret de Mola – a perennial
Read moreLópez Obrador Inaugurates Non-Functioning Oil Refinery
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Less than three and a half months after he cut the ribbon on his new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) — which, due to a plethora of problems, such as a lack of working conveyor belts to move luggage and no viable public transportation to and from the hub, is still receiving just 12 flights per day
Read moreDos Bocas Price Tag Soars by 40 Percent
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The cost of Mexico’s Dos Bocas refinery — one of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s pet megaprojects — is expected to cost 40 percent more than previously estimated — some $3.6 billion more — and is unlikely to be completed before the government’s 2022 deadline, inside sources reported. Construction of the 340,000-barrel-per-day refinery is
Read moreMexico to Take Control of Deer Park on Jan 20
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s financially strapped state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) is slated to take control of the Deer Park refinery, located in Texas, on Thursday, Jan. 20, in accordance with a purchase agreement with the Anglo-Dutch transnational corporation Royal Dutch Shell, which currently owns half of the oil processing plant. In May of last year,
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