One of the sources pointed out that it is expected that during the last month of the year a production of 50,000 barrels per day of ultra-low sulfur diesel.
One of the three hydrodesulfurization plants – which remove sulfur from fuels – in the complex will begin operations in the coming weeks and will be used for the production of diesel that would be destined for the market in the center of the country.
In these last plants, tests are already being carried out with refined specification products in conjunction with suppliers, added one of the sources.
The office of the Ministry of Energy – which is the one that administers the project – was consulted, but did not respond to a request for information.
Large-scale plans indicate that The refinery could produce up to 120,000 barrels per day of ultra-low sulfur diesel, a fuel variable that Pemex has dealt with and that is produced in smaller quantities in the rest of the state company’s complexes.
Dos Bocas has already been under construction for more than four years without a precise date for its continuous commissioning. In a recent announcement last September, President López Obrador said that the refinery would process around 290,000 barrels of crude oil per day next December.
But this last objective seems impossible taking into account the current processes of the refinery.
Also, in the last call with investors last October, Octavio Romero Oropeza, the director of the state company, said that the integration work of the 17 plants that make up the complex and the first stage of construction of infrastructure for the removal of products would continue. during the first quarter of next year.
With this latest information, analysts predict that The continued start-up of the complex will be delayed much beyond the first months of the year.