MOSCOW (MRC) -- A major fire has broken out at an oil refinery run by Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) in the eastern city of Minatitlan in the southern state of Veracruz, reporte Reuters with reference to Mexican media and authorities' statements.
According to media reports and Mexico's safety, the blaze started at this refinery, one of six operated by Pemex, which has a capacity of up to 285,000 barrels per day, on Wednesday afternoon.
Energy and environment regulator ASEA said it was monitoring the situation.
ASEA's executive director Angel Carrizales said on Twitter the fire started in a gasoline transfer pump.
Police from the state of Veracruz said emergency services were arriving at the scene. It was not immediately clear what, if any, human cost the blaze had caused.
Pemex did not immediately reply to questions about the fire.
As MRC informed before, there was a fire at Pemex's Minatitlan refinery in mid-June 2018. There were no injuries. The fire was put out soon.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 2,220,640 tonnes in 2020, up by 2% year on year. Only shipments of low density polyethylene (LDPE) and high density polyethylene (HDPE) increased. At the same time, polypropylene (PP) shipments to the Russian market reached 1 240,000 tonnes in 2020 (calculated using the formula: production, minus exports, plus imports, excluding producers' inventories as of 1 January, 2020). Supply of exclusively PP random copolymer increased.
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 (PE), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS).
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