Before Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) surprised the oil industry last week with plans to take full control of a refinery in Texas, an internal assessment by the Mexican state oil company had concluded it lacked expertise in the refining business. Pemex's domestic refining operations have long racked up losses, and the 2019 internal assessment seen by Reuters found the state oil group had failed to take advantage of its nearly three-decade partnership with Royal Dutch Shell in the profitable Deer Park refinery in Texas. Knowledge that could have been useful to Mexico's six domestic refineries had not been effectively transferred from Deer Park, the report found.
up harris county medical officials for people to come by yesterday and expected to reopen today and get themselves checked out for concerns. we ran into several people who say they have been dealing with strange ailments throughout much of the week. they tell us there is nothing in the air which i don t believe. i felt my throat itchy, my face, my lips. i still feel itchy, not a burn, burn. you can feel it. i feel like hot like burning right here. and then i had like diarrhea a couple of days ago. i spit out blood this morning. i never felt like this before. reporter: those two gentlemen live here in the deer park, texas area and work at another chemical plant nearby so that is some issues they have been dealing with.