Five workers were killed in a fire on an oil platform off the coast of Mexico. As the national oil company Pemex announced on Monday, two others were missing and six were injured. Only after a few hours can the fire be brought under control.
On Sunday, a fire in the system of the Ku-Maloob-Zaap oil field in the Gulf of Mexico may have been unintentional. Mexico -About 100 kilometers from Ciudad del Carmen city-It broke out during planned maintenance work. There is currently no information about possible environmental damage.
The indebted company general manager Octavio Romero (Octavio Romero) said he is investigating the incident. Mexico CityRomero said that the operation of 125 wells at the facility has been suspended, reducing the output of 421,000 barrels of crude oil per day. He ruled out the failure of the fire due to lack of investment.
Incidents always happen in the bay
The company has a history of accidents. Only in early July, a gas leak occurred in an underwater pipeline in Ku-Maloob-Zaap, causing a sensation on the sea surface. Flames were seen near the oil rig on the water.
At that time, lightning strikes during the storm were called the probable cause. According to Pemex, it takes more than five hours to completely extinguish the fire with nitrogen. No one was injured, it said. The Mexican Raw Material Authority ASEA announced that no oil has leaked into the sea.
The accident occurred on the southern edge of the Gulf of Mexico. In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the coast of the United States, causing one of the biggest natural disasters in decades. At the time, the marine protection agency NOAA estimated that nearly 800,000 liters of oil were spilled in several spills every day.
