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Planta de Tratamiento, Cotaxtla, Veracruz

Planta de Tratamiento, Cotaxtla, Veracruz

A fully operational drill-cuttings and contaminated-soil treatment plant, 8 km from Pemex’s Ixachi field.

8 km
From the Ixachi field (Pemex)
85.5 ha
Site area
250,000 t/año
Installed capacity
100%
Operational
MOVA

MOVA (Tratamientos Integrales MV) was founded in April 2019 to treat drilling cuttings and hydrocarbon-contaminated soil for Mexico's Gulf coast oil and gas operators. The plant sits on 85.5 hectares in Cotaxtla, Veracruz, 8 km from Pemex's Ixachi field, one of the country's largest active onshore developments, projected to reach up to 3,000 wells over the next 15 years.

The plant is 100% operational, with 16 treatment cells and 4 pits built and in service, a truck scale with an integrated weighing system, an analytical laboratory, and a reagent warehouse.

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Authorizations

Treatment technologies

Weekly site progress

MOVA documents plant construction and operations weekly, photo and video, organized by phase. A sample of that log:

Aug 20, 2026
Aerial fly-over
Full panoramic aerial pass over the completed treatment cells, internal roads, and areas still under construction.
Jun 16, 2026
Aerial & overall progress
Full-site aerial pass showing all treatment cells, lined and in service, plus the completed industrial building.
Nov 18, 2025
Earthwork
Grading complete on the remaining treatment cells ahead of geomembrane installation.
Oct 25, 2025
Concrete & civil works
Largest single week of civil works recorded to date: 35 photos spanning foundations, containment walls, and access roads.
Aug 28, 2025
Earthwork
Site clearing and initial grading, the earliest dated entries in the current build log.

Permit documents on file

This is a real log kept internally, shown here in full below: every dated photo, video, and permit document.
Full archive

MOVA · Cotaxtla, complete photo, video, and permit archive

Video

Three field clips are embedded below. Five additional clips, including a full aerial fly-over, exist in the working archive but were too large to bundle into this package (up to 161 MB each); they are best hosted on YouTube or Vimeo (unlisted) once you're ready to publish them.

Night concrete pour inside a lined treatment cell: boom pump and crew placing and vibrating concrete over rebar.

Excavator homogenizing and moving material inside a cell with water and mud, part of the treatment process.

Night operation: dump trucks running alongside the completed perimeter drainage channel, site lighting on.

Photos by category

Click a category to expand it. Every photo is the original file, organized exactly as MOVA's own build log keeps them.

Earthwork 38
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Geomembrane 10
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Concrete & civil works 35
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Machinery & equipment 17
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Industrial buildings 3
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Aerial views & overall progress 17
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Permit documents

PDF ASEA_UGI_DGGEERC_0102_2025.pdfASEA notice 0102/2025 (Jan 27, 2025). Processing of the Particular-modality Environmental Impact Statement, including high-risk activity, for the MOVA Ecological Project, file 30VE2024X0089, at Paso de los Carros, Cotaxtla, Veracruz. PDF Autorizacion Suelos MOVA _ 04 2023.pdfSEMARNAT notice (Apr 25, 2023) modifying Authorization 15-V-36-19 for contaminated soil treatment in favor of Tratamientos Integrales MV, valid through October 10, 2029. PDF Autorización MIA-MOVA 2021.pdf PDF Cambio de uso de suelo a industrial (MV).pdfCotaxtla municipal notice OP/003/2019 (Oct 31, 2019): favorable opinion for the land-use change from agricultural to industrial across the 85.5-hectare site. PDF Copia Simple ESCRITURA LA TINAJA - Veracruz.pdfPublic deed No. 67,351 (Notary 29, Veracruz, Aug 29, 2019): purchase agreement for the 85.5-hectare "Paso Los Carros" rural property in Cotaxtla. PDF Cosntancia_Terreno Planta Veracruz.PDFNotarial certificate (Notary 29, Oct 15, 2019) confirming ownership of the 85.5-hectare Cotaxtla site, with boundaries including frontage on the Córdoba–Veracruz highway and the Cotaxtla River. PDF Registro de PPA - 08 04 2022.pdfSEMARNAT notice 004522 (Jul 27, 2022): approval of the Accident Prevention Program for high-risk activity (hydrogen peroxide) at the Cotaxtla plant.