MOSCOW (MRC) -- A fire that completely shut down Mexico's Salina Cruz oil refinery of Pemex has been put out but operations have yet to be restarted, state-owned petroleum company Pemex said on Friday.
Pemex said in a statement that installations of the refinery would be evaluated to determine when operations can resume.
The Pacific coast refinery is Mexico's biggest, with a daily processing capacity of 330,000 bbl of crude oil.
The blaze, which killed a firefighter and injured nine workers, broke out on Wednesday. Pemex had already suspended much of the plant's operations on Tuesday, when rains from Tropical Storm Calvin flooded the plant.
The rising waters broke containment dams, triggering a spill of a type of heavy oil, which ignited at the facility's pump house, driving Pemex to entirely halt refinery operations.
As MRC informed before, Pemex had invested almost USD5.5bn in upgrading its refineries, increasing pipeline capacity and modernising a fertiliser plant by 2017.
Pemex, Mexican Petroleum, is a Mexican state-owned petroleum company. Pemex has a total asset worth of USD415.75 billion, and is the world's second largest non-publicly listed company by total market value, and Latin America's second largest enterprise by annual revenue as of 2009. Company produces such polymers, as polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene.
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