MMEX's proposed facility would be no more, or less prone to accidents during operations.
It helps to know the business. Refineries undergo constant maintenance, periodic unit turn-arounds, and ongoing incremental modernization. The false, and misleading claim that "coastal refineries are old, prone to leaks, and have a high degree of maintenance just to keep the (sic) running" is incorrect.
The incident at Marathon MPC is unrelated to the location, or age of the refinery - ammonia is a consumable, and a cylinder burst during an alky unit restart is not unheard of.
MMEX of course has no alky capability, another critical flaw in the design, limiting MMEX's proposed unit to intermediate stream products.
The patently false claim that "40 years of design modifications are going into MMEX..." is so far off in the ditch it is laughable. A topping unit, especially one as rudimentary as what MMEX proposes is very basic, mature in engineering and implementation, and largely unchanged over the last 50-years.
MMEX, even if it were actually building something, has designed in significant flaws in the Phase I unit - it would barely survive 2-years of operation in the real world before reaching the usual turn-around interval. The lack of desalting capability, process water descalers, acid control subsystems, and desulphrizaion will result in rapid corrosion, frequent pump and exchanger failure, and other problems.
MMEX, and its unproven, rank amateur Phase I EPC partner clearly do not understand the technical aspects of the business they've created a charade to enter.
I agree. The.Coastal.Refineries are old, prone to leaks and have a high degree maintenance just to keep the running.
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