Overview
- The new advisory commission, installed on April 16, began drafting a long-term program to guide Pemex and Mexico’s energy strategy.
- Honorary chair Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas set three urgent tasks for Pemex: modernize refineries, make better use of petroleum coke, and cut routine gas flaring at offshore sites.
- Petroleum coke is a carbon-heavy solid left from refining heavy crude, and recent strain on storage and handling, including a fire at the Dos Bocas complex, shows the safety and logistics risks of piling it up.
- Routine flaring burns off gas that is not captured, which wastes fuel and adds greenhouse emissions, so curbing it could free gas for power and lower pollution in coastal communities.
- The body is consultative, will meet at least three times a year, and will present recommendations to director Víctor Rodríguez Padilla as it outlines how Pemex could evolve into a wider energy company.