Mexico’s Pemex Says Nine Injured, One Dead in Platform Fire

Mexico’s state-controlled oil company said a fire at one of its Akal-B oil platforms in the Campeche Bank left nine people injured and one person dead Saturday afternoon.

Petroleos Mexicanos, also called Pemex, said five of the injured were its employees while the rest were from other companies. The deceased worker was from the company COTER. The fire was controlled in under 20 minutes, it said in a statement.