Pemex CEO says fatal fire aboard oil platform could have been caused by gas leak
Remains found in control room may be missing two workers.
The CEO of Mexican state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has said that a deadly fire aboard the E-Ku A2 oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico may have been caused by a gas leak.
Five rig workers were killed in the fire, two are missing and six were injured when the platform caught fire on Sunday in the Ku-Maloob-Zaap field in the southern Gulf.
DNA testing is being used to establish the identity of two scorched bodies found in a control room.
“This is preliminary because they are doing the analysis to know in detail what happened, but it is presumed that there was a gas leak at the time that maintenance work was being carried out on this platform,” Pemex CEO Octavio Romero said in an interview with local media.
