Three Dead on Pemex Platform, Fire Under Control
Three workers were killed and at least seven injured when a fire broke out on a Pemex oil processing platform in the Gulf of Mexico, but the latest in a string of incidents is now under control, the Mexican oil giant said via Twitter on Sunday. A spokesman for Pemex said oil continued to be pumped but that the company was still evaluating any impact on production. The platform did not have to be evacuated, according to a tweet.
Pemex Douses Refinery Blaze, Says Ops Normal
Mexican oil giant Pemex said on Thursday it had controlled a fire at its Lazaro Cardenas refinery in Minatitlan in the eastern Gulf coast state of Veracruz, and said its plants were operating normally and that no-one was injured. The company said it would investigate what had caused the fire in the Minatitlan refinery, whose refining capacity was raised to 246,000 barrels per day in 2012.
