Social media has been awash with reaction to the videos, ranging from confusion to concern: 'Never in your life forget the time humans caught the ocean on fire and then tried to put it out by spraying water on it,' tweeted podcaster Dave Anthony. One of the most popular videos quickly racked up more than 10 million views on Twitter. Mexican publications and journalists reporting on the incident shared videos showing a harrowing scene: A orange glow below the boiling surface of the ocean - and boats spraying streams of water, in an apparent attempt to put out the fire. The company said it used boats to pump water over the underwater blaze, although nitrogen was also used to control the fire, Reuters reports, citing a Pemex incident report. No injuries were reported and the company said it took about 5 hours to bring the incident under control. If you are looking for high resolution, photographic quality satellite imagery of hurricanes and other.

The 'fire in the sea' was put out at 10:45 a.m. following a gas leak about 500 feet from a drilling platform, Pemex tweeted. Unless otherwise noted, the images linked from this page are located on servers at the Satellite Products and Services Division (SPSD) of the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). bp expects to increase production in the Gulf of Mexico to around 400,000 boe/d by the mid-2020s. Mexico’s state-owned oil company said a fire caused by a rupture in an undersea gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico is over, but videos showing efforts to put out what appears to be an underwater caldron of fire live on. In April 2023 we brought online our fifth offshore platform, Argos, which will help us increase our Gulf of Mexico production to around 400,000 barrels per day by mid-decade, and average 350,000 barrels per day through the end of the decade. Watch Video: Underwater gas pipe rupture causes fire in the Gulf of Mexico 5 min read A fire on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico erupted after a gas leak from an underwater pipeline sparked a blaze, according to Mexico’s state-owned.

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