The Dos Bocas port in Tabasco could become the place where the following government administration’s first refinery could be built.
According to the information and analysis that the future Minister of Energy, Rocío Nahle , has conducted so far, PEMEX (Mexican Petroleums) owns lands at the terminal of the Port Authority Administration of Dos Bocas (APIDB) , which covers an area of around 173 acres .
On June 15 , PEMEX Explorations and Production requested its board of directors to approve the lease of some of their lands at the Dos Bocas port terminal, a strategy that could be suspended until the official location of the new refinery has been approved.
Until now, APIDB has shared information with the future Minister of Energy indicating that the port is seeking to “consolidate itself as the most important logistics platform in the Gulf of Mexico’s southwest oil region.”
“We are expecting an increase in development and investment for the energy sector, due to the present administration’s Energy Reform . Because of its location and infrastructure, the Dos Bocas port has the potential of increasing its hydro-carbon related activities, particularly in regard to crude oil exports , which detonates multiple productive and logistics processes related to oil exploration, extraction, transformation, and commercialization .”
In the medium term, the transfer of petroleum products and sub-products at the Dos Bocas port will increase 75.3% in the next 20 years as a result of new investments in the oil sector both from companies that bought license contracts in the past year and PEMEX, along with its business partners.
According to information from PEMEX and APIDB, Dos Bocas’ main economic activities are focused on the oil industry.
According to the Dos Bocas port’s Master Development Plan of 2017-2022 , the terminal received 345 ocean tankers in 2016 , containing an average of 77,452 tons each . 19 of them contained asphalt; 285, crude oil, and 41, marine diesel . Crude oil, as well as its sub-products, was the main export cargo, mostly bound for the United States, Spain, Japan, and South Korea .
The Dos Bocas port has been deemed “a strategic location within the National Port System of Mexico , since it acts as a logistics platform for the oil industry. It also mobilizes 40% of crude exports in the country, which represents a higher volume than the Coatzacoalcos ports , and a similar volume to the Cayo Arcas port ,” reads the document issued by the Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT) .
Dos Bocas has an efficient infrastructure and terminal service at its port facilities, which meet the needs of oil and cargo companies from all over the world. As a result of the recent license contract bidding which allows for companies to invest and partake in Mexico’s oil production, economic activities throughout the Gulf of Mexico are expected to continue growing.
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