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Mexico’s state-owned oil company Pemex restarts its refinery Salina Cruz after the fire in mid-June. The gasoline production in the country’s largest refinery should resume this week and to restore the full production of 330,000 barrels per day very soon.

“Workers began to start up the refinery on Sunday, and that process should conclude during the day on Monday, with output resuming in three or four days”, says the official statement of Pemex.

The Mexico’s largest refinery has been inactive since a fire broke out in mid June following a flood. Then, the flooding reached the containment dam of crude oil tank, causing an oil spill. The spilled oil inflamed and the fire spread to the refinery pumping room. The accident was pretty big and one worker died during the fire, while several other were seriously injured.

Pemex said last month that it would need to import an additional 3.5 million barrels of gasoline to compensate for the loss of Salina Cruz output. Even though Mexico is a crude exporter, it imports more than half the gasoline it uses, mostly from the United States.

The refinery Salina Cruz on the Pacific Coast is the largest in Mexico and a major source of refinery-grade propylene, a key feedstock for the manufacture of polypropylene resin. Salina Cruz is also a major supplier of residual fuel oil across the US border to California.