Petróleos Mexicanos reported a fire on April 9 in the coke warehouse at the Olmeca refinery in Dos Bocas, Tabasco. Emergency services are responding, with no injuries reported so far. A large smoke plume was visible from the area.
Petróleos Mexicanos announced on social media a fire in the coke warehouse at the Olmeca refinery in Dos Bocas, Paraíso municipality, Tabasco. Videos shared online show flames on a structure and a thick smoke column visible from various points in the complex.
Preliminary reports pointed to the coking plant, but the company specified the coke warehouse. 'No injuries reported so far,' the state oil firm stated, as local emergency services respond to the incident.
This marks the third event in under two months at the facility. On March 17, a fire from oily waters on the perimeter wall killed five people, followed by a spill reaching the Río Seco river, impacting fishing and tourism. A reported gas leak on the previous Tuesday was attributed by Pemex to normal operational vapors.
The fire came a day after a Wednesday drill at plot 1, sector 7, near spherical tanks, simulating a storage sphere leak. Classified as a major internal emergency type 2, it proceeded without incident, per municipal Civil Protection.
