The state oil company in Mexico announced yesterday that it suffered a rupture in an underground gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico, causing large flames to boil on the surface of the Gulf waters.
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Petroleos Mexicanos said it had sent fire control boats to pump more water over the flames. Pemex, as the company is known, said no one was injured in the Ku-Maloob-Zaap offshore incident. The company said it had brought the gas leak under control about 5 hours later.
The images caused by the accident, the flames boiling from below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, made the rounds of the media.
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It is unclear how much environmental damage the gas leak and the fire caused by it had caused.
Miyoko Sakashita, director of the ocean program for the Center for Biological Diversity, wrote that "frightening views of the Gulf of Mexico are showing the world that offshore drilling is dirty and dangerous."
According to him, these terrible accidents will continue to damage the Gulf if the drilling does not end once and for all.
