Refinery

Olmeca refinery — cogeneration failure and restart

24 June 2026 · 14:24 local time

Dos Bocas, Tabasco, Mexico

What happened

A failure in the Olmeca refinery's cogeneration system caused its process plants to be placed into a safe condition. Pemex reported no danger to personnel, the community or the environment and began a gradual restart the same day. The company did not quantify how much operating capacity was interrupted, so no shutdown percentage is assigned.

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Evidence
Documented
Confidence
High
Infrastructure
Refinery
Latitude
18.4300°
Longitude
-92.9800°

Attribution

Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.

Sources

  1. Pemex reports restart process and rules out risks at Olmeca refinery after electrical failurePemex · Incident reporting