MEXICO CITY, July 7 (Reuters) - Several workers at an offshore platform run by Mexican state oil company Pemex in the Gulf of Mexico are missing after a fire broke out early Friday morning, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters.
The president said Pemex firefighters were at the scene at the Cantarell complex, in the Bay of Campeche, to put out the fire after an explosion at a gas production platform and that employees were evacuated.
One Pemex employee and three others were injured, the oil workers union said in a statement.
A source at the company told Reuters the fire was at Pemex's Nohoch-A offshore gas compression platform, but that oil production remained unaffected.
Cantarell produces from one of Mexico's largest oil fields which for decades was one of Pemex's crown jewels.
Persons:
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Lopez Obrador, Ana Isabel Martinez, Stefanie Eschenbacher, Manuel Carrillo, Kylie Madry, Isabel Woodford, David Holmes
Organizations:
MEXICO CITY, Reuters, Cantarell, Thomson
Locations:
MEXICO, Gulf, Mexico, Bay, Campeche