"Eye of Fire" was considered in the media a shocking event on Friday, the images of which went viral on social networks.
The fire in the Gulf of Mexico in the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Yucatan Peninsula, was extinguished, according to the announcement of the state oil company, Pemex, which indicated that the cause was a gas leak from an underwater pipeline.
It took more than five hours for the fire to be completely extinguished, according to Pemex. It started on an underwater pipeline connected to the Ku Maloob Zaap platform for oil development, the company's most important, four sources told Reuters.
WATCH: Flames shooting from the Gulf of Mexico after gas leak causes pipeline to catch fire pic.twitter.com/4LNOAY8w7I
— BNO News (@BNONews) July 2, 2021
Where Maloob Zaap is located near the southern tip of the Gulf of Mexico. The company added that it would investigate the cause of the fire. Company workers used nitrogen to control the fire.
Shout out to all the legislators going out on dinner dates with Exxon lobbyists so they can say a Green New Deal is too expensive ?? https://t.co/zlQE7LGfPL
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 2, 2021
Angel Carrizales, head of Mexico's oil safety regulator, ASEA, wrote on Twitter that the incident "did not generate any spills." He did not explain what was burning on the surface of the water.
