They were flown to a hospital in Houma to be evaluated, the Interior Department's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said in a statement. The four workers were rescued by the crew of the 130-foot Mary Wyatt Milano, a supply vessel, the Coast Guard said. on a platform about 80 miles south of Grand Isle, Louisiana, and was extinguished nearly four hours later, the Coast Guard said in a statement. There were no injuries and inspectors found no sign of pollution, authorities said. Virmani, Ph.D.A fire broke out on an oil production platform in the Gulf of Mexico early Thursday, forcing four workers to evacuate by lifeboat before the blaze was extinguished. With its new research vessel Falkor (too), Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI) has ramped up its ability to map the ocean floor. Offshore wind developer Ørsted is deploying Rutter’s wave prediction technology on board selected crew transfer vessels (CTV)… Ørsted to Deploy Rutter's Wave Prediction Tech on CTVs Ocean services provider DeepOcean has completed a decommissioning project on Fairfield Energy’s Dunlin Alpha platform on the UK continental shelf. Oceaneering's Brazilian subsidiary, Marine Production Systems do Brasil, has secured a five-year contract from the Brazilian…ĭeepOcean Completes Decommissioning Project on Dunlin Alpha Platform Oceaneering Wins Five-year Petrobras Contract Turkey, Romania, and Bulgaria will work together against the threat of floating mines in the Black Sea due to war between Russia and Ukraine… Related News Turkey to Work with Romania, Bulgaria Against Black Sea Mines (Reporting by Adriana Barrera and Marianna Parraga Additional reporting by David Alire Garcia Writing by Anthony Esposito Editing by Daina Beth Solomon, Philippa Fletcher and David Gregorio) "The turbomachinery of Ku Maloob Zaap's active production facilities were affected by an electrical storm and heavy rains," according to a Pemex incident report shared by one of Reuters' sources.Ĭompany workers used nitrogen to control the fire, the report added.ĭetails from the incident report were not mentioned in Pemex's brief press statement and the company did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Ku Maloob Zaap is Pemex's biggest crude oil producer, accounting for more than 40% of its nearly 1.7 million barrels of daily output. Pemex, which has a long record of major industrial accidents at its facilities, added it also shut the valves of the 12-inch-diameter pipeline.Īngel Carrizales, head of Mexico's oil safety regulator ASEA, wrote on Twitter that the incident "did not generate any spill." He did not explain what was burning on the water's surface. The company added it would investigate the cause of the fire. It was completely extinguished by 10:30 a.m. Pemex said no injuries were reported, and production from the project was not affected after the gas leak ignited around 5:15 a.m. Ku Maloob Zaap is located just up from the southern rim of the Gulf of Mexico. The fire began in an underwater pipeline that connects to a platform at Pemex's flagship Ku Maloob Zaap oil development, the company's most important, four sources told Reuters earlier. The fire took more than five hours to fully put out, according to Pemex. 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 blaze captured in videos that went viral.īright orange flames jumping out of water resembling molten lava was dubbed an "eye of fire" on social media due to the blaze's circular shape, as it raged a short distance from a Pemex oil platform.
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