Pemex Tula Refinery — Mexico

Pemex Tula Refinery is a refinery in Mexico. Its listed capacity is 315,000 BBL per day. Refineries heat, fractionate and chemically transform crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through energy-intensive distillation and cracking — extremely demanding on steam generation and heat recovery. It is operated by Petróleos Mexicanos EPE. By capacity it ranks #3 among 7 oil refineries in Mexico. It emits about 1,973,084 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 4.8% of the CO₂e from the 62 facilities in Mexico that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 27% below the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3144024.

In context: how this facility compares

At 315,000 BBL per day, Pemex Tula Refinery is around the median refinery in Mexico (285,000 BBL per day). Subsector: oil-and-gas-refining. As refinery, it requires high process heat (typically 200–600°C) for its core industrial operations, supplied by boilers, furnaces or direct combustion. Refineries heat, fractionate and chemically transform crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through energy-intensive distillation and cracking — extremely demanding on steam generation and heat recovery.

Capacity & CO₂-intensity comparison computed from Climate TRACE industrial facilities data; sector role based on engineering reference.

What 1,973,084 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's estimated annual CO₂e (Climate TRACE, modelled) in everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:

Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest oil refineries in Mexico

Listed capacity (BBL per day), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).

Operator

Operated by Petróleos Mexicanos EPE. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Pemex Tula Refinery sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate zone (Köppen BSk), at 20.0°N in the northern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

Site climate & environmental severity

This site sits in a benign, low-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C1 — Very low), with dust abrasion the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1344 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.03× the loss at a 20 °C reference. Reference-surface calculation at a 150 °C surface from WorldClim climate normals (ASTM C680 / ISO 12241) — an indicative per-climate comparison, not a measurement of this site’s specific equipment. Open method dataset: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20787408 (CC BY 4.0).

Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.

How it compares & nearby sites

The #3 largest of 7 oil refineries in Mexico by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• Atotonilco Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 487,000 t CO₂
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• Vito Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 232,290 t CO₂
• Apaxco Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 242,238 t CO₂
• Gerdau Corsa Tultitlán steel plant · Steel Plant · 24,784 t CO₂
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Location

Coordinates 20.0441, -99.2778. View on OpenStreetMap.

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