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Bosonic

(3,746 posts) Wed Apr 1, 2015, 12:00 PM Apr 2015

In fire on Mexico Pemex oil platform, 45 hurt, 300 evacuated

Source: Reuters

Mexican state-run oil company Pemex said on Wednesday it had evacuated around 300 workers after a fire broke out on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, with local emergency services reporting that at least 45 people were injured.

Pemex said on Twitter that eight firefighting boats were tackling the blaze, which erupted overnight on the Abkatun Permanente platform in the oil-rich Bay of Campeche.

A spokesman for emergency services in the city of Ciudad del Carmen said authorities had registered 45 people injured so far due to the blaze.

The spokesman said no fatalities were reported, though local Mexican media said that at least one person had died.

Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/04/01/pemex-fire-idUKL2N0WY18520150401

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In fire on Mexico Pemex oil platform, 45 hurt, 300 evacuated (Original Post) Bosonic Apr 2015 OP

Amazing how many of these oil industry related accidents occur... damyank913 Apr 2015 #1

4 dead, 16 hurt in oil platform fire in Gulf of Mexico Purveyor Apr 2015 #2

damyank913

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1. Amazing how many of these oil industry related accidents occur...

Reply to Bosonic (Original post)

Wed Apr 1, 2015, 01:54 PM

Apr 2015

...when the price of oil drops.

Purveyor

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2. 4 dead, 16 hurt in oil platform fire in Gulf of Mexico

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Wed Apr 1, 2015, 03:32 PM

Apr 2015

Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY 2:59 p.m. EDT April 1, 2015

At least four people were killed and 16 workers injured when a fire erupted early Wednesday on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico belonging to Mexico's state petroleum giant Pemex, the company said in a statement.

The company said one of those who died when the fire broke out at dawn at the Abkatun Permanente platform was a contractor for the Mexican oil services company Cotemar.

Pemex said on Twitter that it was using eight firefighting boats to battle the blaze.

Two of the injured were in serious condition and 300 workers were evacuated from the Abkatun platform, located in the Campeche Sound, near the coast of the states of Campeche and Tabasco.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/04/01/pemex-oil-platform-gulf-of-mexico-fire/70773842/

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