Fire On The Ocean's Surface Near Mexico

On Friday, A fireplace on the ocean surface west of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula was extinguished early.

A fire on the ocean surface west of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula timely Fri has been destroyed, state company Pemex mentioned, blaming a gas leak from an associated underwater pipeline for sparking the blaze, which was also captured in videos that went viral.

Bright orange flames jumping out of water resembling liquid volcanic rock was dubbed the associate "eye of fire" on social media because of the blaze's circular form, because it raged a brief distance from a Pemex oil platform. The hearth took over 5 hours to completely extinguish out, per Pemex. The hearth began in an associated underwater pipeline that connects to a platform at Pemex's flagship Ku Maloob Zaap oil development, the company's most significant, four sources told Reuters earlier. Ku Maloob Zaap is found simply up from the southern rim of the Gulf of the United Mexican States.

Pemex mentioned no injuries were reported , and production from the project wasn't affected once the gas leak lighted  around 5:15 a.m. local time. it absolutely was fully destroyed by 10:30 am. the corporate accessorial might investigate the reason for the hearth. Pemex, which features a long record of major industrial accidents at its facilities, additionally shut the valves of the 12-inch-diameter pipeline.

Angel Carrizales, head of Mexico's oil safety regulator Seaward, wrote on Twitter that the incident "did not generate any spill." He didn't justify what was burning on the water's surface. Ku Maloob Zaap is Pemex's biggest crude producer, accounting for over four-hundredth of its nearly one.7 million barrels of daily output.

"The turbomachinery of Ku Maloob Zaap's active production facilities were tormented by an associated electric storm and significant rains," per a Pemex incident report shared by one amongst Reuters' sources. Company employees used gas to regulate the hearth, the report accessorial. Details from the incident report weren't mentioned in Pemex's temporary press statement and also the company didn't forthwith answer a missive of invitation for comment.