A deadly weekend fire at on an offshore platform in the southern Gulf of Mexico operated by Mexican state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) could have been caused by a gas leak, Pemex’s chief executive said on Wednesday. Five workers were killed, two are missing and six were injured in the fire on Sunday on the offshore platform that is part of Ku-Maloob-Zaap in the southern Gulf of Mexico, Pemex’s most productive oil field. read more “This is preliminary because they are doing the analysis to know in detail what happened, but it is presumed that there was a gas leak at the time […]