MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s state-owned oil business stated Friday it suffered a rupture in an undersea gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico, sending out flames boiling to the surface area in the Gulf waters.
Petroleos Mexicanos stated it had actually dispatched fire control boats to pump more water over the flames.
Pemex, as the business is understood, stated no one was hurt in the event in the overseas Ku-Maloob-Zaap field.
The leakage near dawn Friday happened about 150 backyards from a drilling platform. The business stated it had actually brought the gas leakage under control about 5 hours later on.
But the mishap triggered the odd sight of roiling balls of flame boiling up from listed below the surface area of the Gulf of Mexico.
It was uncertain just how much ecological damage the gas leakage and oceanic fireball had actually triggered.
Miyoko Sakashita, oceans program director for the Center for Biological Diversity, composed that “the frightening video footage of the Gulf of Mexico is revealing the world that offshore drilling is filthy and harmful.”
Sakashita included, “These dreadful mishaps will continue to hurt the Gulf if we don’t end overseas drilling at last.”
