Pemex, which has a long record of major industrial accidents at its facilities, said “it will continue to report on the control, extinction of the fire and damage assessment throughout the day.” Some employees of other platforms told CNN Friday that the flames can be seen from the nearby platforms, so the incident appears to be of considerable magnitude.ĭuring an earlier press conference, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the blaze was being battled by Pemex firefighters and the Mexican Navy was also participating in the efforts. He said the firm is now focusing its efforts on looking for the missing person and resuming operations. ET A fire broke out in the southern waters of the Gulf of Mexico Friday after an underwater pipeline leaked, sending the internet ablaze with horror as videos of flames spewing out of the ocean went viral. An underwater gas pipeline ruptured and sent a ball of fire to the ocean surface in the Gulf of Mexico. following a gas leak about 500 feet from a drilling platform, Pemex tweeted. Water and nitrogen was used to put out the flames on the water’s surface (Picture: BNO News). The 'fire in the sea' was put out at 10:45 a.m. 24 August 2021 EPA The fire broke out while maintenance work was being carried out At least five people have been killed and six injured in a fire at an offshore oil platform owned by.
Oropeza said the part of the platform where the fire started has been completely destroyed, and that Pemex is investigating what caused the fire. Mexico’s state-owned oil company said a fire caused by a rupture in an undersea gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico is over, but videos showing efforts to put out what appears to be an underwater caldron of fire live on. In the latest video statement posted to Pemex’s Twitter account, Pemex Director Octavio Romero Oropeza, said the two people who died and the one missing are from the company that was working at the facility and not from Pemex. Both incidents were, predictably, associated with fossil fuels. The state-owned oil company said earlier that at least six were injured. Over the weekend, not only did a fire break out in the Gulf of Mexico but also in the Caspian Sea. A blaze on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico resembling a large 'eye of fire' has been brought under control, according to Mexicos state oil company Pemex. Four boats have been sent to control the fires on the oil platform. A fire on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico erupted after a gas leak from an underwater pipeline sparked a blaze, according to Mexico’s state-owned Pemex petrol company (Twitter/Manuel Lopez. Some 321 workers out of the 328 who were working on the structure when the fire started have already been evacuated, according to Pemex. FILE - Porfirio Munoz Ledo, president of the Congress, looks at Mexicos new. In 2021, a blaze that resembled a large “eye of fire” near a Pemex offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico was brought under control.At least two people were killed and one person is missing after a fire broke out Friday at the Nohoch Alfa offshore platform at the Bay of Campeche, in the Gulf of Mexico, the state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) said in a statement. San Diego Fire-Rescue crews on scene of gas line break in Clairemont.
He said the firm is now focusing its efforts on looking for the missing person and resuming operations. Oropeza said the part of the platform where the fire started has been completely destroyed, and that Pemex is investigating what caused the fire. The state-owned oil company said earlier that at least six were injured. Four boats have been sent to control the fires on the oil platform. At least two people were killed and one person is missing after a fire broke out Friday at the Nohoch Alfa offshore platform at the Bay of Campeche, in the Gulf of Mexico, the state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) said in a statement.
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