2023-07-07 22:21:00
MEXICO CITY. The state-owned Petróleo Mexicanos (Pemex) confirmed mid-afternoon on Friday that the fire at one of its facilities at sea, located in the southeast of Mexico, left two dead and one missing. In the morning, there was evidence of six injuries.
In @Pemex the priority is safety. From the fire this morning on the Nohoch_A platform, the preliminary results are that in #Pemex there are no missing staff. Unfortunately, 2 people died and there is 1 missing from the company that carried out work in the… pic.twitter.com/vc2LMzqalC
— Petróleos Mexicanos (@Pemex) July 7, 2023
The general director of Pemex, Octavio Romero, explained that at dawn on Friday there was an accident at the Nohoch oil center, off the coast of the southern state of Campeche, where one of the link platforms caught fire for reasons that are still unknown. are being investigated.
Romero indicated, in a video posted on Twitter, that two employees of a company that provides services to Pemex died in the accident and another remains missing.
Four boats were sent to the scene to control the flames.
The company indicated in the morning that 321 workers were evacuated with the support of seven ships. However, in the information offered in the afternoon it was not specified if the fire was controlled or is still active.
According to a report by the oil workers union, disseminated by local media, some of the injured suffered first, second and third degree burns on the face, neck and arms and head trauma. They were transferred to health centers.
Earlier, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had reported that firefighters from the oil company and personnel from the Secretary of the Navy were participating in fire control operations.
In February there were two fires at two Pemex facilities in the state of Veracruz, on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, which left seven dead. One occurred in a drilling rig in the Ixhuatlán municipality where five employees died. The other was registered at the Combinada Maya plant of the Minatitlán refinery where two people died.
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