XÓCHITL GÁLVEZ, opposition candidate
“With the objective of protecting the health of more than 6 million people, the Cadereyta and Tampico refineries will close definitively in the first six months of my government. To the workers of both refineries I want to share a message of peace of mind: None of you are going to lose your source of employment. Your labor rights will not be affected by this decision.”
CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM, Morena candidate
“No refinery in the country is going to close. Our strategy is to give continuity to the energy plan that is currently underway in the country.”
JAVIER ÁLVAREZ MAYNEZ, Citizen Movement candidate
“(On the closure of refineries) If Lázaro Cárdenas were alive, he would not be thinking about ideas from a century ago, but about the future of Mexico. And he would understand that our wealth is in the sun, the wind and the water, not in fuel oil.”
ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR, president of Mexico
“We must continue to move towards self-sufficiency and put aside the absurdity of exporting raw materials and importing fuel, selling oranges and buying orange juice. No closing or abandoning refineries; On the contrary, improve your productivity and count on others; Likewise, finish building the two new coking plants in Tula and Salina Cruz to obtain more gasoline and not produce polluting fuel oil.”
CARLOS LÓPEZ JONES, director of Consulting in Economic and Financial Trends
“If you want to nip the problem in the bud, you have to return Pemex to profitability and the way to achieve this is by closing three or even four refineries that are already very old and that could reduce Pemex’s losses and allow it to meet its commitments. debt in the coming years. One could initially think of Cadereyta or Minatitlán, since they are refining only about 100 thousand barrels per day, and it is assumed that when Dos Bocas operates it will be able to refine up to 300 thousand more efficiently and with less pollution. “Continuing to import fuels to cover national demand is a great alternative for the market, which does not have to be seen as something negative.”
RAMSÉS PECH, consultant at Caravia y Asociados
“Closing refineries is not an option either, since it is not only about stopping production, but also about dismantling the equipment, doing remediation work in the area, as already happened in the case of the Azcapotzalco refinery. In the case of the Cadereyta refinery alone, its closure requires at least five years to dismantle and three to remediate, in addition to the cost of this would reach 3.5 billion dollars, while its total cessation of operation would represent the loss of up to five billion dollars for the economy of said state, as well as the loss of direct and indirect jobs.”
OSCAR OCAMPO, energy coordinator of the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness
“First, a study would be needed to thoroughly evaluate the operation of the six refineries that make up the National Refining System (SNR), to determine which ones are worth maintaining and which could be converted into petrochemical complexes. Secondly, it must be analyzed what would be done with the workforce, which, although it was mentioned that they would stay to work at Pemex and that no one would be affected, you still have to know what you are going to use them for.”
2024-03-23 00:43:01
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