MEXICO CITY, June 20 (Reuters) - Mexico's state energy

company Pemex will start processing crude oil in its new Olmeca

refinery in the port of Dos Bocas in the second half of the

year, its Chief Executive Officer Octavio Romero said on

Thursday.

At the end of the year, Romero added, Pemex would process

1.44 million barrels per day at its domestic refineries,

including 163,000 in the new Olmeca in Tabasco state.