At least one contractor was killed after a fireplace struck an offshore platform operated by Mexico’s nationwide oil firm Pemex, the agency stated in an announcement on Sunday, including that two others had been in “grave” situation.
A complete of 9 staff suffered accidents within the blaze on Saturday afternoon that struck the corporate’s Akal-B platform, situated within the southern Gulf of Mexico, the place most of Pemex oil output originates.
Five of the 9 had been Pemex workers whereas the remainder had been contractors from native service suppliers Diavaz and COTER.
A day earlier, Pemex stated solely two of its workers had been injured, and that not one of the injures had been critical as the fireplace had been managed in 16 minutes, opens new tab.
Pemex infrastructure throughout Mexico has for years suffered frequent lethal accidents, which analysts typically blame on poor upkeep and different operational deficiencies.
The Akal-B platform is a part of Pemex’s getting older however nonetheless important Cantarell complicated of shallow water wells. The complicated at the moment produces some 200,000 barrels per day of crude oil, however 20 years in the past was one of many world’s prime producing fields with over 2 million bpd of output.
In its assertion, Pemex didn’t element how oil and gasoline manufacturing from the complicated had been affected. It did observe that the corporate continued to research the reason for the incident in addition to actions wanted with the intention to “reestablish” operations at its processing heart.
(Reuters – Reporting by David Alire Garcia; Editing by Bill Berkrot)
