Six people were injured after a fire broke out on Friday morning at an offshore platform run by Mexican state oil company Pemex in the Gulf of Mexico, the company said in a statement.
A company source, speaking to media on condition of anonymity, said oil production remained unaffected.
Pemex said the fire started at the Nohoch-A joining platform and spread to a compression platform of the Cantarell complex in the Bay of Campeche.
Cantarell produces from one of Mexico’s largest oil fields which for decades was one of Pemex’s crown jewels. But production at Cantarell has now declined to 170,000 barrels per day (bpd), according to Pemex data.
Earlier on Friday, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had said in a regular press conference that there were three or four people missing after the fire, but his spokesman Jesus Ramirez later told that was no longer the case.
In its statement, Pemex said that 321 of 328 people working on the platform had been evacuated.
“Part of the team is battling the fire,” Ramirez said, explaining why some had not been evacuated.
The Pemex source said the company was still making checks to confirm exactly who had been on board at the time of the fire.