Mexico Metropolis, Mexico – Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Mexico’s state-run oil firm, confirmed that “fashionable pirates” assaulted an offshore oil drilling platform within the Gulf of Mexico on February 13, assaulting employees and stealing a number of the firm’s property.
The assailants raided the Zaap-D oil rig, a part of the large Ku-Maloob-Zaap oil discipline which sits off the coast of the Campeche state within the Gulf.
Reportedly, the unknown “pirates” arrived by boat to the Zaap-D rig – a “satellite tv for pc” platform normally manned by two employees – someday between the late night on February 13 and the early morning hours of February 14. The 2 employees had been reportedly overwhelmed and sure for 5 hours by eight males earlier than authorities discovered them whereas the amenities had been being robbed.
Pemex stated that the attackers stole instruments, radio units, respiratory tools and different property.
Whereas oil amenities have beforehand reported stolen property, with 102 raids reported from 2018 to 2022 throughout the Campeche Sea Shelf, such violence towards staff is rare.
The Ku-Maloob-Zaap zone is a hotspot for oil manufacturing in Mexico, accounting for 40% of the oil produced by Pemex, roughly 745,000 barrels per day as reported by El Economista.
The “Sonda de Campeche” is an oil and pure gas-rich stretch of sea that borders Campeche throughout the Gulf of Mexico, the physique of water at present disputed by U.S. President Donald Trump as he has pushed to rename it because the Gulf of America.
The Sonda of Campeche harbors 100 amenities, most of them oil and fuel producers, which gasoline home consumption and worldwide exports.
Throughout her morning briefing, President Claudia Sheinbaum said that the Navy strengthened patrols to safeguard the oil amenities throughout the Gulf.
On February 17, the Mexican authorities granted clearance for the U.S. army to enter Mexico’s territory and journey into Campeche, the place 10 army officers will practice Mexican Navy officers below the brokered settlement between Mexico and the U.S. to cooperate in safety.
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