An aerial view of the Deer Park Manufacturing Complex is seen in Deer Park, Texas, U.S. August 31, 2017. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

They spent less than three weeks and two fires were recorded at the refinery facilities deer park, in Texas, which was purchased by Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) to Shell in January 2020, for an amount of nearly $600 million.

However, the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador despised the last of them incidents during his morning conference this Wednesday, where he revealed that was not informed about what happened and said that maybe it was not a serious incident.

“Surely there could have been an accident, but the refinery is working well. He has one productive capacity above 80 percent. It processes 340,000 barrels of crude oil a day and owns 80 or slightly more of its abilityit’s ok, even with utilities, there may be an accident has occurredbut has a program interview very strict,” the president said.

He fire has been reported on social networks, by Internet users who they released a video where a column of black humans can be seen where refinery.

Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador AMLO (Reuters)
Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador AMLO (Reuters)

However, Pemex So far, it has not released any information about the incident, although it has responded to questions posed by international agencies.

According to Reuters, via email Pemex informed him that “the team of emergency response site is on site and working to mitigate the incident. Subsequently, he also reported that he had been hit control the accident within 20 minutes that there had been no casualties and that the damage was being assessed.

Another fire was recorded at this refinery last February 23a day when two incidents were also documented at Pemex factories in Mexico, one of them in IxhuatlanVeracruz, and another at the refinery mintitlanin the same state.

Of these three events, Pemex has only made public information about those that occurred in the State of Veracruzreporting and updating in the following days the number of dead and injured.

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