Pemex’s Dos Bocas Turns Into Mexico’s Refinery Nightmare

Such disruptions reflect a broader structural problem. Southeastern Mexico’s power grid is prone to instability, with long transmission corridors, limited redundancy, and high exposure to severe weather. Outages throughout the Yucatan Peninsula in May 2024 and September 2025 underscored the fragility of the system, leaving facilities such as Dos Bocas vulnerable to cascading failures. For a refinery of this scale, the lack of reliable power supply represents a critical operational risk.Yet the reality of op ...