GULF OF MEXICO FIRE BY RUPTURED GAS PIPELINE

  • 03/07/2021

Pemex(Petroleos Mexicanos), The state-owned oil company reported that it suffered a rupture in an undersea gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico causing fire to breakout of the waters in the gulf. 
Pemex said it had dispatched fire control boats to pump more water over the flames.The sources has reported that nobody was injured in the incident in the offshore Ku-Maloob-Zaap field.The company has successfully contained the flames within five hours of the outbreak.

But the accident gave rise to the strange sight of roiling balls of flame boiling up from below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.
It was unclear how much environmental damage the gas leak and oceanic fireball had caused.
Miyoko Sakashita, oceans program director for the Center for Biological Diversity, wrote that "the frightening footage of the Gulf of Mexico is showing the world that offshore drilling is dirty and dangerous."
Sakashita added, "These horrific accidents will continue to harm the Gulf if we don't end offshore drilling once and for all."
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