In 2015 four workers were killed, 16 injured and more than 300 people had to be evacuated after an explosion on the company’s Abkatun A-Permanente platform in the Gulf of Mexico. It is not the first major incident for Pemex in recent years. One year after the fire and explosion on the BP Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico, we round up the main points so far Ben Bryant Wed 03. The report also adds that workers used nitrogen to bring the fire under control.

“The turbomachinery of Ku Maloob Zaap’s active production facilities were affected by an electrical storm and heavy rains,” a Pemex incident reports seen by Reuters states. The head of Mexico’s oil safety regulator ASEA, Angel Carrizales, took to Twitter to write that the incident “did not generate any spill” but did not explain what was being burned on the ocean’s surface.

Ku Maloob Zaap is Pemex’s biggest crude oil producer, accounting for more than 40 per cent of its daily output of nearly 1.7m barrels. 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. In a statement, Greenpeace Mexico’s Gustavo Ampugnani said that “these are the risks we face on a daily basis and which call for a change in the energy model, as we have demanded.” The hellish inferno took five hours to get under control. A raging fire on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico near a Pemex offshore oil platform last Friday provoked a Twitter storm. The state oil company then began to “close the interconnection valves in the pipeline, extinguishing the fire and the gas emanation” to control the leak by 10.45am, more than five hours later. Mexicos state-controlled oil company Pemex is investigating the cause of the gas leak, which led to a five-hour fire on the oceans surface. Pemex reported a leak at 5:15am on Friday in the submarine pipeline near its Ku-Maloob-Zaap’s Ku-C satellite platform in the Campeche Sound.

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