Mexico City. Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) confirmed that at the Deer Park refinery, located in Texas, there was an acid gas leak, which left five workers injured and two more possibly dead.
The state company commented in a statement that the incident in one of the facilities’ process units occurred at 4:40 p.m. this Thursday.
“We are aware of five affected workers who are being treated, and to confirm, the death of two more people,” he said before indicating that the community was not affected.
As a result of the leak, the emergency protocols were activated, as well as the refinery’s Emergency Care Center and the respective notifications were made to the local authorities.
He indicated that to mitigate the impact, the operation of the coking unit and hydrotreatment units was stopped, and safety venting was also carried out, notifying the authorities under the mechanisms indicated in the protocol.
The state company indicated that investigations are being carried out to find out the causes of the accident and work is being done to reactivate the facilities.
📌 Informa #PEMEX regarding the security incident at the Deer Park refinery. pic.twitter.com/O2ahb9ilPD
— Petróleos Mexicanos (@Pemex) October 11, 2024
Pemex considers as national the production sent by the Deer Park refinery from Houston, after the purchase three years ago of 50 percent of the shares from its American partner Shell, for 600 million dollars, when it took full control of the bilateral consortium.
The volume of fuel sent by Deer Park to Mexico represents almost 10 percent of its total production from the Texas plant, which sells the rest in the United States or exports it to other countries.
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