[1/3] Boats spray water onto an offshore oil platform that caught fire at the Pemex's Cantarell Field, in the Bay of Campeche, Mexico July 7, 2023.
The fire started early Friday on the Nohoch-A link platform of the company's Cantarell Field and later moved to a compression complex, killing two people.
"Today, 700,000 barrels of losses have been reflected (...) because we closed practically all the wells in the area," Romero said via the company's Twitter account.
As of Saturday afternoon, 600,000 barrels of production had resumed, the executive added.
Most of Mexico's crude production, approximately 1.6 million bpd, comes from the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Persons:
Octavio Romero, Romero, Cantarell, Pemex, Marion Giraldo, Anna, Catherine Brigida, Kim Coghill
Organizations:
REUTERS Companies, Ciudad del, Thomson
Locations:
Bay, Campeche, Mexico, Handout, MEXICO, Gulf of Mexico, Cantarell, Ciudad