Mexico's largest oil refinery restarts crude processing after power outage

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) - Mexican state oil company Pemex said its Salina Cruz refinery resumed processing crude on Friday after a power outage had shut it down since Wednesday night.

Photo courtesy of Pemex.

The Salina Cruz refinery, Pemex’s largest, has an installed capacity to process 330,000 barrels of crude oil per day (bpd).

As of June, the facility was processing slightly more than 200 Mbpd of crude, according to Pemex data.

(Reporting by Adriana Barrera Writing by Anthony Esposito Editing by Daina Beth Solomon)

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