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The Mexican enterprise has not revealed the impact of the fire on marine life and only referred that the leak on a 12-inch diameter pipeline did not cause an oil spill.Įnvironmentalists say this is one of the many examples of the tragic consequences of the fossil fuel paradigm. Footage of the fire appearing to boil the ocean’s surface with bright orange flames went viral on 2 July after a leak was reported near a platform used for offshore drilling by Mexico’s. Pemex said that there were no deaths or injuries and that the pipeline's connection valves were closed to control the gas leak. The facility's three firefighting vessels were only able to extinguish the fire five hours after the accident using nitrogen. The gas leak occurred at 5:15 am and caused a fire 150 meters from the Ku-Maloob-Zaap platform located off the coast of the Bay of Campeche. A fire that broke out on Friday after an explosion in an underwater oil pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico has been extinguished, Mexicos state oil company. The accident took place at a natural gas operation owned by Pemex, the Mexican state-owned oil and gas company.
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A leak on an underwater pipeline located near an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico sparked a massive "eye of fire" on the ocean's surface. On April 20, 2010, the oil drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, operating in the Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico, exploded and sank resulting in the death.