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At least one contractor was killed after a fire struck an offshore platform operated by Mexico's national oil company Pemex, the firm said in a statement on Sunday, adding that two others were in ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's state energy company Pemex said on Saturday that a fire broke out at one of its platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, adding that it had activated emergency protocols ...
Oil skimming vessels (distance) in the Gulf of Mexico Dark clouds of smoke and fire emerge as oil burns during a controlled fire in the Gulf of Mexico, 6 May 2010. The three basic approaches for removing the oil from the water were: combustion, offshore filtration, and collection for later processing.
December 27, 2017 - A fire broke out at an oil tank, in Cherokee County. [190] January 3, 2018 - An oil tank fire in Madison County. [191] January 24, 2018 - An explosion & fire at an oil rig injures 1, in Karnes County. [192] Feb. 25, 2018 - A lightning strike caused an explosion & fire, at an oil storage facility in Gonzales County. [193]
Between 2005 and 2007, Transocean was the owner of 30% of oil rigs active in the Gulf, and 33% of the incidents that triggered a Minerals Management Service (MMS) investigation took place on Transocean rigs. However, in the 3 years from 2008 to February 15, 2010, Transocean was the owner of 42% of rigs active in the Gulf but was responsible for ...
At least two people were killed after a fire broke out Friday at the Nohoch Alfa oil platform at the Bay of Campeche, in the Gulf of Mexico, the state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) said in a ...
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on April 20, 2010 when an explosion struck the rig, it occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect.Killing eleven people, it is considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and sources estimated that between 134–206 million barrels of oil was released into the gulf.
Still reeling from the devastation caused by the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon rig, the U.S. got another scare Thursday as the Coast Guard responded to another rig explosion in the Gulf of ...