"The complete opacity with which this spill has been handled is worrying," said the NGOs, which included including Greenpeace. This was "more than twice the surface area of the city of Guadalajara," the NGOs said in a statement. Two workers were killed after a fire broke out on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Satellite images show that the spill began on July 4, three days before the blast, and by last week had spread over some 400 square kilometers. The fire started on Friday in the Gulf of Mexico. Mexican NGOs on Tuesday, July 18, reported an oil spill in an area of the Gulf of Mexico where an explosion this month killed two workers at a gas production platform of state company Pemex. Jat 5:09 PM EDT Listen 1:50 This Article is for Subscribers Only A raging fire on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico near a Pemex offshore oil platform last Friday provoked a. 27, 2011, file photo, shows the Perdido oil platform located about 200 miles south of Galveston, Texas, in the Gulf of Mexico. Le Monde with AFP Published on July 18, 2023, at 10:59 pm (Paris), updated on July 19, 2023, at 8:11 am A blaze on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico resembling a large eye of fire has been brought under control, according to Mexico’s state oil company Pemex. The leak has spread over some 400 square kilometers. Satellite images show that the spill began on July 4, three days before an explosion that killed two workers at a gas production platform of state company Pemex. The same blowout that caused the explosion also caused an oil well fire and a massive offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, considered the largest. NGOs report large oil spill in Gulf of Mexico
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