Mexico’s state-owned oil company Pemex said a fire on an offshore platform over the weekend left one worker dead and nine injured — the latest in a string of accidents.
The blaze broke out in the Campeche Sound, a key energy producing region off the coast of southeastern Mexico.
There is “unfortunately one deceased worker” from a Pemex contractor, a company statement said.
Four more employees of the contractor, COTER, were hospitalized, along with five Pemex workers, it added.
Debt-laden Pemex has suffered a series of fires and other safety incidents in recent years.
An explosion at a gas facility in the Gulf of Mexico last July left two workers dead.
In February 2023, around a dozen workers suffered burns in two fires that occurred at facilities in the southeastern state of Veracruz.
In August 2021, a fire on a platform during maintenance work left several people dead.
The previous month, a spectacular blaze and gas leak from an underwater pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico caused what was dubbed an “eye of fire” in the sea, though there were no victims.
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