The incident was the country's deadliest pipeline explosion and was the result of a botched gas heist. In 2019, 137 people were killed as a result of a pipeline explosion in the town of Tlahuelilpan in Mexico's Hidalgo state. Petroleos Mexicanos said it had dispatched fire control boats to pump more water over the flames. Pemex is one of the largest petroleum companies in the world and also has the largest debt of any major oil company - for a total of around $114 billion - and it has a history of industrial accidents. MEXICO CITY (AP) Mexico’s state-owned oil company said Friday it suffered a rupture in an undersea gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico, sending flames boiling to the surface in the Gulf waters. This amounts to 40 percent of Pemex's total output of around 1.7 million barrels per day. Video of part of the ocean in flames in the Gulf of Mexico has now been viewed more than 20 million times after a leak from a gas pipeline caused a fire off the. Petroleos Mexicanos said it had dispatched fire. Ku-Maloob-Zaap produces over 700,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, according to Energy Voice. A blaze on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico resembling a large 'eye of fire' has been brought under control, according to Mexico's state oil company Pemex. A fire erupted on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico after the state-owned oil company suffered a rupture in an undersea gas pipeline. Pemex has said it will launch an investigation into the leak. Firefighting vessels were also brought in to extinguish it. The company said that interconnection valves were closed in order to control the gas leak and bring the fire under control. REvil Ransomware Syndicate Allegedly Behind Holiday Weekend Hack.Footage of the fire appearing to boil the ocean’s surface with bright orange flames went viral on 2 July after a leak was reported. An underwater gas pipeline has caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico. GOP Elise Stefanik Challenger Says People 'Should Be Able To Own a Nuke' A ring of fire on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico following a ruptured gas pipeline has renewed scrutiny into the state of thousands of miles of oil and gas infrastructure in the gulf.Amazon Faces Lawsuit Alleging Price Gouging During Pandemic.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.Īnd in January 2013, an explosion caused by a gas build-up at the company’s Mexico City headquarters killed 37 people. It is not the first major incident for Pemex in recent years. The ocean is on fire in the Gulf of Mexico after a pipeline ruptured. The state oil company 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. Ku Maloob-Zaap is located just up from the southern rim of the Gulf of Mexico. It was unclear how much environmental damage the gas leak and oceanic fireball had caused. Pemex said the fire took more than five hours to extinguish. It was only around 10:30 local time when the fire was completely extinguished, according to the fire was caused by a gas leak from a pipeline at a depth of 78 meters.Īs per The Independent, no employees of the oil platform were injured, there was also no evacuation from the facility. 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. Tres barcos han apoyado para sofocar las llamas /thIOl8PLQo- Manuel Lopez San Martin July 2, 2021Īccording to various reports, the blaze started at about 5:15 local time (09:00 GMT), 400 meters (over 1,300 feet) of the Ku-Charly oil platform, not far from the shore of the Mexican state of Campeche, the Televisa broadcaster reported on Friday. A gas leak from an underwater pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico led to a raging fire on the oceans surface Friday, Reuters reported.
🚨 Sobre el incendio registrado en aguas del Golfo de México, en la Sonda de Campeche, a unos metros de la plataforma Ku-Charly (dentro del Activo Integral de Producción Ku Maloob Zaap) The fire, however, was extinguished roughly 150 yards from a drilling platform in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, The Independent reported. The internet is ablaze with terrifying images as videos of the fire – appearing to boil the ocean’s surface with bright orange flames – went viral. 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. In a shocking development, a heavy underwater fire has erupted near an oil platform of the
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