State-owned company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) reported this Friday: two out of five missing workers Passed after the fire It was recorded yesterday in the Tuzandepetl Trench in southern Mexico. “During the search for missing personnel, two bodies were found that are being examined by the Forensic Service with prior authorization from the Federal Public Service,” Pemex said in a statement.
On Thursday afternoon, the ‘PM-119’ drilling rig servicing the Tuzandepetl-331 Gap in the municipality of Ixhuatlán del Sureste, Veracruz, broke out without knowing the cause. In addition, the state oil company reported that “work continues to find the three missing workers.”
Pemex emphasized the following regarding the injured workers: The two remain in the hospital and are “stable and cared for” In a public hospital of the Mexican parastatal. He stated that they will start cleaning works and that they will continue to search for the reasons for the emergence of this incident, which can be seen from kilometers away, in different parts of the southern state. veracruz Pemex said, “Work continues to determine the causes of the fire in the drilling equipment and the ground cleaning will begin.”
The facilities where the fire broke out are part of the space rehabilitation project at the Tuzandepetl Strategic Storage Facility in the municipality of Ixhuatlán del Sureste, Veracruz.
On the same Thursday and before this incident, an initial fire was also reported at the Lázaro Cárdenas de Minatitlán refinery, one of Latin America’s largest refineries, in which five more workers were injured with first and second degree burns. In this case, Pemex assumed that the likely cause of the fire was product spillage onto a hot surface.