One of Mexico's largest oil refineries has shut down due to an explosion and fire.

On the evening of May 11 (local time), an explosion and fire broke out at the Pemex Ingeniero Antonio Jaime oil refinery in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Six people were injured in the incident. According to Pemex and Oaxaca state authorities, the explosion occurred around 20:30 PM in the cooling tower of the Hidros-2 plant. All the victims suffered burns of varying severity: three Pemex employees (including two women) and three contractor employees. They were quickly taken to hospitals.

Pemex stated that the fire was quickly contained and fully brought under control by internal security services. There is currently no threat to nearby residents or the environment. Refining operations at one of Mexico's largest refineries have been suspended as part of safety protocols.

The cause of the incident has not yet been officially announced. Pemex specialists stated that they are conducting an investigation.

This isn't the first incident at Pemex's Salina Cruz facilities. In the past, the plant has experienced numerous fires and incidents related to equipment and weather conditions. Oaxaca authorities and company management have expressed their readiness to provide all necessary assistance to the victims.

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[Mouse]

Petrov and Bashirov can’t be hidden.. There Trump forges money... B

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Mouse

Trump is making money there...

Is this Trump's retaliation for Mexico's rebellion over its plans to supply gasoline to Cuba? A warning of sorts...

[Mouse]

Well, Trump is proposing to "refuel the world"... B

[Nexcom]

nonsense - Mexicans-caballeros will go to Texas to fill up, it's nearby.

[Mouse]

Like the Finns going to Leningrad for vodka...

[Nexcom]

...only the opposite—Mexicans love to smuggle their moonshine into Texas and sell it under the table for cheap and duty-free. For this, Texas border patrol and local self-conscious self-defense activists are really chasing them away.

[Mouse]

You can't go wrong with a bang .... B

[Nexcom]

...but the local alcoholics who like to get high respect Mexican moonshine there - because it's cheap, you won't get sick, and it's strong.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Mouse

Like the Finns going to Leningrad for vodka...

I once got a string bag of "sleepers" stuffed into my pockets for the Finns' "drunken tours"... As if it had never happened, because it couldn't have happened at all...
Yeah... They probably pushed it, those who had never been to Leningrad and had never seen smiling drunken figures.

[Nexcom]

They packed it in unfairly, I agree. That's why I gave it an upvote. I myself once saw them not only wandering around drunk but even sleeping on benches, completely wasted. It happened.

[Mouse]

So they are not from Leningrad, then at worst from St. Petersburg... But for me Leningrad will always be Leningrad!!!

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Mouse

So they are not from Leningrad, then at worst from St. Petersburg... But for me Leningrad will always be Leningrad!!!

Personal observation.
When this city, in my opinion the most beautiful in the world, was called Leningrad, for some reason everyone was eager to call it "Piter." Even in the army, we had "Piterians," not "Leningraders."
Now the situation is exactly the opposite. They've come to their senses...
For me, my son, and, I hope, my grandson, it has always been and will always be Leningrad. My grandson doesn't care for now, but he won't escape his grandfather's upbringing...

[Mouse]

Sorry, but no one will say - the siege of St. Petersburg... Only Leningrad...

[Zoldat_A]

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Sorry, but no one will say - the siege of St. Petersburg... Only Leningrad...

Thats exactly what I mean.
Even if I am in conflict with History, for me the palaces are still in Leningrad, not in St. Petersburg.
The only thing I don't understand is why, suddenly, is St. Petersburg the administrative center of the Leningrad Region? And where in our country is the St. Petersburg Region?

[Mouse]

But I didn’t twist my brain enough....
Otherwise, these officials would have...

[Nexcom]

We have the same thing: the region is Sverdlovsk, and the city is Yekaterinburg.

[Zoldat_A]

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We have the same thing: the region is Sverdlovsk, and the city is Yekaterinburg.

The Yekaterinburg region is just as cool as the St. Petersburg region...

Mindyukino and Krasny Sickle came to mind...

[Reptiloid]

I got a lot of flak for the "drunken Finn tours"...

Igor, I'll look into that. I think it's a matter of age. I'm from Leningrad myself, but I didn't see it because of my age. The Finns are practical, so after the collapse of the USSR, these drunken tours moved closer to the border, to Vyborg, for example. And our guys started bringing more alcohol there. I've already seen all of that. And they also brought canisters of gasoline from the Russian Federation.

[Chersky]

I also often observed this drunken herd near Pulkovskaya. They were having drunken weekends.

[Reptiloid]

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....... They probably pushed those who had never been to Leningrad and had never seen smiling drunken figures.

Igor, I was curious about how that conversation went. I searched and couldn't find it. Could you tell me when, or in what article? Why am I curious? If they didn't see it or don't know, then it must have been young people, younger.
Me... Or whoever recently moved in in St. Petersburg.

[Zoldat_A]

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I'm curious how that conversation went. I searched and couldn't find it. Could you please tell me when it happened, or in what article?

It wasn't really a conversation. It was my comment about drunken Finnish excursions. I don't even remember what it was about – I just remember that the mention of dates caused an unhealthy stir. I don't remember exactly – it was a month or two ago.
There's nothing remarkable about the comment itself - I was more surprised by the reaction.

[Reptiloid]

a month or two ago...

It's a pity I can't find it Either young people, or newcomers, or some kind of admirers of gay Europeans They said these locals couldn't possibly behave like that. I hadn't seen them drinking for a long time, but I knew about it. And I knew that if they drank at home, it was usually just the two of them, either in the family or with friends at the sauna on the weekends. If they hadn't gone to Vyborg themselves or picked up a drink on the highway, they'd buy it from our guys right off the buses.

[Reptiloid]

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Quote: Mouse

Trump is making money there...

Is this Trump's retaliation for Mexico's rebellion over its plans to supply gasoline to Cuba? A warning of sorts...

Greetings Igor! Most likely, I think this is a pretext for Trump. After all, he plans to fleece all the countries of the Americas, starting with those that are closer and more accessible to him.

[Zoldat_A]

Dmitry, !

Quote: Reptiloid

Most likely, I think this is a pretext for Trump. After all, he plans to fleece all the countries of the Americas, starting with those that are closer and more accessible to him.

From this perspective, it certainly makes sense to reduce Mexico's crude oil consumption by destroying its refineries. What good would they need the oil if there were no refineries? But they'd be in America, and the oil would go there too...

[Reptiloid]

Trump has been in power for how long, and yet the promised victories haven't materialized. Not in Greenland, not in the Middle East... And the EU hasn't been fleeced... So at least he could squeeze out the Latinos, even if it's not the same benefit... That's probably what he's thinking, deciding.

[tralflot1832]

What were the contractor's workers doing at the oil refinery? Unscrewing nuts on fishing tackle weights?

[Zoldat_A]

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What were the contractor's workers doing at the oil refinery? Unscrewing nuts on fishing tackle weights?

I don't know how it's organized at Mexican refineries, but I don't think I'm revealing a military secret if I say that at our refineries, the primary personnel are instrumentation specialists. Maintenance crews are extremely limited in number and scope, and the lion's share of routine maintenance and capital construction work is performed by contractors.
Why should an oil refinery employ, for example, concrete workers? Or high-rise installers? With all the machinery and equipment? They need a "flying" emergency team that can patch up a single leak. And all the scheduled work is outsourced. Moreover, contractors work for years and decades—there's always something to build. It was like that in Soviet times, and it's still like that today.

[Reptiloid]

Igor! I thought someone would write about the Ukrainian connection. No one thought of it. I was the first.

[Brturin]

Somehow they one after another - May 8 in the States - A powerful explosion thundered in the afternoon of May 8 at the PBF Chalmette oil refinery in the suburbs of New Orleans https://topwar.ru/282404-moschnyj-vzryv-i-pozhar-na-npz-v-ssha-doma-drozhali-shkoly-zakrylis.html

[isv000]

Did our "tourists" get the address wrong?! They came to the wrong spires...