Footage of the fire appearing to boil the ocean’s surface with bright orange flames went viral on 2 July before the fire was extinguished roughly 150 yards from a. 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. 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. It is not the first major incident for Pemex in recent years. The report also adds that workers used nitrogen to bring the fire under control. local time Friday off the coast of Campeche, west of the Yucatan Peninsula, and was caused by a gas leak from an underwater pipeline. A statement from Pemex stated the fire began around 5:15 a.m. A fire that broke out on Friday after an explosion in an underwater oil pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico has been extinguished, Mexicos state oil company. “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 Gulf of Mexico is burning like a eye of fire due to the tremendous amount of fuel. 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. A fire on the ocean surface west of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula early on Friday has been extinguished, state oil company Pemex said, blaming a gas leak from an underwater pipeline for sparking the. 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 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.
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