A fire at an offshore oil platform operated by Mexican state oil company Pemex has left five people dead and slashed the country’s oil output by almost a quarter.
About 420,000 barrels of daily oil output remained offline on Monday, the company said, following the 80-minute blaze at the Gulf of Mexico facility on Sunday evening.
“Right now the platform is still not operating, so they can’t continue to extract oil,” Octavio Romero, Pemex chief executive, told a press conference on Monday. “The wells are closed. And we hope to resume production as soon as possible.”
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