“The turbomachinery of Ku Maloob Zaap’s active production facilities were affected by an electrical storm and heavy rains,” a Pemex incident reports seen by Reuters states. Map shows acres burned and containment of Mosquito Fire and Dutch Fire in Placer County and. The head of Mexico’s oil safety regulator ASEA, Angel Carrizales, took to Twitter to write that the incident “did not generate any spill” but did not explain what was being burned on the ocean’s surface. A fire two miles from the Gulf Coast burned approximately 1,700 acres in.
Gulf of mexico fire on map update#
Ku Maloob Zaap is Pemex’s biggest crude oil producer, accounting for more than 40 per cent of its daily output of nearly 1.7m barrels. UPDATE Feb 19, 2022: The map below shows the estimated perimeter of the fire in. In a statement, Greenpeace Mexico’s Gustavo Ampugnani said that “these are the risks we face on a daily basis and which call for a change in the energy model, as we have demanded.” The state oil company then began to “close the interconnection valves in the pipeline, extinguishing the fire and the gas emanation” to control the leak by 10.45am, more than five hours later. A blaze on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico resembling a large eye of fire has been brought under control, according to Mexico’s state oil company Pemex. Pemex reported a leak at 5:15am on Friday in the submarine pipeline near its Ku-Maloob-Zaap’s Ku-C satellite platform in the Campeche Sound. MEXICO CITY (AP) Mexico’s state-owned oil company said Friday it suffered a rupture in an undersea gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico, sending flames boiling to the surface in the Gulf.
The company said that “no injuries or evacuations are reported.”
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