Pemex updates platform fire death toll to five
Petroleos Mexicanos said in an August 23 update about a fire at an offshore platform that five people were dead, six were injured and two others were missing.
The company, known also as Pemex, reported that a fire broke out on the afternoon of August 22 at the E-Ku AS platform in the Campeche Sound, a bay just west of the Yucatan Peninsula. Pemex said the blaze was under control about an hour after the incident was first reported. The incident occurred during routine maintenance that involved cleaning out lines from compressor pumps.
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The company in July reported that a submarine fire near an offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico was caused by a string of events during inclement weather. A fire burned for about five hours near the Ku-C platform, off the Yucatan Peninsula, after an electrical storm with intense rain triggered an outage on a pneumatic pump at the same time that a leak was detected on pipelines tied to the platform.
No injuries were reported following the July incident.
Pemex said those injured during the fire on the E-Ku AS platform where being treated at an area hospital, where one person was listed in serious condition.
The company stressed that the fire was not the result of a lack of investment in its infrastructure, adding that Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has increased investments for upstream maintenance in an effort to prioritise safety.