Mexico's biggest gas processing and distribution plant could be out of action for six months after a deadly blast that has sent state Pemex on an expensive hunt for substitute supply. The Sep. 18 explosion at the 900 million cubic foot per day (9.3 billion cubic meter per year) plant in the northeast border town of Reynosa killed 30 staff and contract workers, shining the spotlight on Pemex's increasingly patchy safety record. It occurred in the unit that received and measured an average 700 MMcf/d of gas and condensates from the nearby onshore Burgos field, before the gas was processed and distributed, mainly to industrial and power customers in the north.
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