At least there are two people lost lifeeight people were injured and one missing due to fire released this friday for unknown reasons On an oil rig in southeastern MexicoAccording to state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), which was working to put out the fire that broke out at the facilities where more than 300 people were employed when the incident occurred. Octavio Romero Oropeza, managing director of PEMEX, reported that the injured were three of PEMEX employees who are now out of danger, and five other employees of a private company.
The fire started at around 05:25 a.m. local time on the Nohoch Alfa platform of the Cantarell complex on the coast of the state of Campeche. After the flames were detected, the emergency stop was activated and four company boats were deployed to the area for control missions.
Romero explained that “the firefighting ships arrived on time” and prevented the fire from spreading to other platforms, and they had a “quickly return to production” strategy. “There has been a report of six injuries so far,” PEMEX said in an initial statement. confirmed that 321 of the 328 people working on the platform had been evacuated.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador also spoke about the incident at his daily press conference, but in his case he referred to “three or four” missing persons, considering the rest of the platform’s personnel had been evacuated. The president confirmed that the state oil company will update the information throughout the day.