Pemex: Three Workers Still Unaccounted for
Search for three workers, who went missing after the oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico last week, resumes, Mexico’s oil firm Pemex said in an update.
Two of the missing workers were employed by Cotemar, a Mexican oil services company whereas the remaining one was working for Pemex.
The Navy is still searching for the missing people and will not stop until they are found, Pemex said.
The company added that it was starting activities aimed at restoring production at the damaged Abkatun Permanente oil processing platform.
According to the company’s general director of exploration and production, Gustavo Hernandez, it is expected to restore 80 percent of the pre-fire production this week.
He added that the fire would not affect the company’s production projections from the region which stand at 646,000 barrels of crude a day and 1.4 billion cubic feet of gas.
Four people were killed and 45 injured in the fire that followed a massive explosion on Wednesday on the platform situated in the Campeche Sound.
The deceased have been identified as three Cotemar’s employees and one of Pemex.
The explosion is believed to had been set off by some kind of mechanical problem. The cause of the explosion is being investigated.
World Maritime News Staff
