What happened

Pemex said an electrical storm ignited a fire at the upper valve on the dome of an out-of-service tank at its Pajaritos Storage and Port Services Terminal in Coatzacoalcos. The company activated emergency protocols, evacuated personnel as a precaution and reported no injuries. Pemex industrial-safety and firefighting teams responded with support from nearby facilities and Coatzacoalcos civil protection. The initial reports did not identify the tank, its former contents, fire duration, structural damage or a final cause beyond the lightning storm. Pemex describes Pajaritos as a 42-tank terminal with five marine berths and total design storage capacity of 4.805 million barrels; that facility-wide figure is not the volume involved in this fire.

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