{"id":581046,"date":"2021-07-03T12:06:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T16:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=581046"},"modified":"2021-07-03T12:06:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T16:06:06","slug":"watch-eye-of-fire-seen-in-ocean-after-mexicos-state-owned-oil-company-suffers-offshore-gas-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-eye-of-fire-seen-in-ocean-after-mexicos-state-owned-oil-company-suffers-offshore-gas-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: \u2018Eye Of Fire\u2019 Seen In Ocean After Mexico\u2019s State-Owned Oil Company Suffers Offshore Gas Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-eye-of-fire-seen-in-ocean-after-mexicos-state-owned-oil-company-suffers-offshore-gas-leak%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=581046&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-105461015.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A video of a fire on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico went viral after a gas leak at one of Mexico\u2019s state-owned oil developments.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/fire-offshore-pemex-platform-gulf-mexico-under-control-2021-07-02\/\">reported<\/a> that the leak occurred at Pemex\u2019s Ku Maloob Zaap oil development \u2013 it\u2019s most important development. The resulting fire took more than five hours to extinguish, the company told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported the fire resulted from a gas leak at an underwater pipeline near the southern rim of the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPemex said no injuries were reported, and production from the project was not affected after the gas leak ignited around 5:15 a.m. local time. It was completely extinguished by 10:30 a.m.,\u201d Reuters reported. \u201cThe company added it would investigate the cause of the fire. Pemex, which has a long record of major industrial accidents at its facilities, added it also shut the valves of the 12-inch-diameter pipeline.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.465838509317\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">\ud83d\udea8 Sobre el incendio registrado en aguas del Golfo de M\u00e9xico, en la Sonda de Campeche, a unos metros de la plataforma Ku-Charly (dentro del Activo Integral de Producci\u00f3n Ku Maloob Zaap)<\/p>\n<p>Tres barcos han apoyado para sofocar las llamas <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/thIOl8PLQo\">pic.twitter.com\/thIOl8PLQo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manuel Lopez San Martin (@MLopezSanMartin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLopezSanMartin\/status\/1411059695503261697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Angel Carrizales, head of Mexico\u2019s oil safety regulator, tweeted that the fire \u201cdid not generate any spill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Reuters:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"18\">\n<p><em>Ku Maloob Zaap is Pemex\u2019s biggest crude oil producer, accounting for more than 40% of its nearly 1.7 million barrels of daily output.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe turbomachinery of Ku Maloob Zaap\u2019s active production facilities were affected by an electrical storm and heavy rains,\u201d according to a Pemex incident report shared by one of Reuters\u2019 sources.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Company workers used nitrogen to control the fire, the report added.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Details from the incident report were not mentioned in Pemex\u2019s brief press statement and the company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Laura Pidcock, a former Labour MP who advocates for socialism, tried to blame the fire on capitalism, a notion that was quickly dismissed since Pemex is a state-owned company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPemex is literally what happens when the state seized the means of production,\u201d wrote The Daily Wire\u2019s Emily Zanotti.<\/p>\n<p>As Reuters reported, other social media users dubbed the viral images of the incident the \u201ceye of fire,\u201d due to its circular shape surrounded by ocean water.<\/p>\n<p>Pemex has a history of accidents dating back to the 1980s. Between 1984 and 2019, more than 700 people have died due to explosions and fires attributable to Pemex, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/539345\/death-toll-of-selected-pemex-accidents\/\">according to<\/a> statistics database Statista. Between 2010 and 2017, more than 100 people have died in accidents attributable to the company.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, BNAmericas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnamericas.com\/en\/news\/pemex-reports-lowest-accident-rate-in-its-history\">reported<\/a> the company had seen its lowest accident rate in history for the previous year, seeing a 64% drop in incidence of injury-causing accidents.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond accidents, Pemex is also one of the world\u2019s largest polluters. Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-climate-change-pemex-investors-insigh\/mexicos-pemex-tests-limits-of-investor-influence-on-climate-change-idUSKBN25R1KN\">reported<\/a> in August 2020 that Pemex \u201cwas the ninth biggest energy producer of carbon and methane emissions globally between 1965 and 2018, according to data from the Climate Accountability Institute, an NGO, with emissions of some 23 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is less than the largest state-owned emitters, Saudi Aramco&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/companies\/2222.SE\">2222.SE<\/a>&nbsp;and the National Iranian Oil Company, but more than any other Latin American oil company, the data showed,\u201d the outlet continued. \u201cEven so, sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters the company has no plans to change its strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of a fire on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico went viral after a gas leak at one of Mexico\u2019s state-owned oil developments.Reuters reported that the leak &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313967,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-105461015.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: \u2018Eye Of Fire\u2019 Seen In Ocean After Mexico\u2019s State-Owned Oil Company Suffers Offshore Gas Leak","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-105461015.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: \u2018Eye Of Fire\u2019 Seen In Ocean After Mexico\u2019s State-Owned Oil Company Suffers Offshore Gas Leak","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}