A view of Mexico’s national oil company Pemex’s refinery in Salamanca, in Guanajuato state, Mexico, February 8, 2016. Picture taken, February 8, 2016. Mexican state-run oil company Pemex expects to process 6.3 percent more crude oil this year, as it resolves problems at refineries that forced crude runs to a record low in 2015. The company, which operates six domestic refineries, will refine 1.134 million barrels per day (bpd) this year, compared with 1.066 million bpd in 2015, according to refining documents seen by Reuters. Last year, Pemex processed its lowest amount of crude in at least a quarter century, as plant outages and other inefficiencies battered margins. If Pemex refines more crude domestically, it would lessen Mexico’s need for gasoline imports, which have grown by nearly a fifth over the past three years. Mexico is currently forced to import more than half of its gasoline demand. In an […]