It was unclear how much environmental damage the gas leak and oceanic fireball had caused. The company said it had brought the gas leak under control about five hours later. The leak near dawn Friday occurred about 150 yards (metres) from a drilling platform. Pemex, as the company is known, said nobody was injured in the incident in the offshore Ku-Maloob-Zaap field. Petroleos Mexicanos dispatched fire control boats to pump more water over the flames. Mexico's state-owned oil company said Friday that an undersea gas pipeline ruptured near a drilling platform in the Gulf.

'This is the world they are leaving for us.' Find high-quality stock photos that you wont find anywhere. 'Meanwhile the people in power call themselves `climate leaders' as they open up new oilfields, pipelines and coal power plants - granting new oil licenses exploring future oil drilling sites,' Thunberg wrote. Search from 36 Gulf Of Mexico Fire stock photos, pictures and royalty-free images from iStock.

Sign up here to receive The Climate Barometer, delivering climate and environmental news to your inbox every weekĬlimate activist Greta Thunberg reposted a video clip of the massive fireball on her Twitter account. A fire on the ocean surface west of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula early on Friday has been extinguished, state oil company Pemex said, blaming a gas leak from a.

Greenpeace wrote in a statement that the fire, which took five hours to extinguish, 'demonstrates the serious risks that Mexico's fossil fuel model poses for the environment and people's safety.' He touts oil as 'the best business in the world.' President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has bet heavily on drilling more wells and buying or building oil refineries.

Greenpeace Mexico said the accident Friday appeared to have been caused by the failure of an underwater valve and that it illustrates the dangers of Mexico policy of promoting fossil fuels. Environmentalists criticized Mexico's state-owned oil company Saturday after a gas leak at an underwater pipeline unleashed a subaquatic fireball that appeared to boil the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

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