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🇺🇸⚡- An explosion has rocked an oil refinery in Artesia, New Mexico, with the number of casualties still unclear.

The Navajo refinery processes 100,000 barrels of oil per day — largest in NM. pic.twitter.com/b49hGgmUro

— Monitor𝕏 (@MonitorX99800) November 1, 2025

- The X post accurately reports a real explosion at the HF Sinclair Navajo Refinery in Artesia, New Mexico, on November 1, 2025, which injured three workers and produced thick smoke over the city, but the fire was extinguished within hours with no further risks.
- The attached video depicts a 2012 natural gas plant explosion at a Pemex facility in northern Mexico that killed 26 people, not the current incident, as confirmed by reverse image searches and user replies linking to authentic footage.
- As New Mexico's largest refinery processing 100,000 barrels daily, the event underscores industrial safety vulnerabilities, though peer-reviewed studies on refinery accidents emphasize preventable causes like equipment failure over 80% of the time.