Pemex Evacuates 85 Workers after Gas Leak

Published Oct 8, 2015 9:01 AM by The Maritime Executive

Mexico's state-owned oil company Pemex said on Tuesday that it was working to control a gas leak at the Sihil A platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

Eighty-five workers have been evacuated, Pemex said in a tweet, but there were no injuries and no fire has been reported.

The leak started around at around 0200 GMT, or 9 pm local time, a Pemex spokesman said.

The leak marks the third time in six months that the state owned company has evacuated workers from the Bay of Campeche in the Gulf of Mexico.

In April, Pemex’s Abkatun Alpha platform exploded killing four workers and injuring over 40 others.

In May, two workers died in a rig tilting incident, and in June, the Akal-H platform exploded after a gas leak. No one was injured in the incident.