Mexico’s second-biggest oil refinery was hit by a power outage that halted production, state oil company Pemex said on Saturday.
The Tula refinery in Hidalgo state that processes 315,000 barrels of crude a day suffered an electricity failure that the company was working to fix, a Pemex spokesman told Reuters.
“This should last a few hours,” he said.
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“The refinery has sufficient inventories and there is no risk of shortages or lack of product,” the company said on its Twitter account.
