PEMEX has reported that on August 22, a fire broke out in the Ku-A Processing Center at the E-Ku-A2 compression and electricity generation facility where, so far the company confirmed the death of five people, with six injured and two missing.

Of the deceased persons, one worker is from PEMEX and four from the COTEMAR company; likewise, there are two missing persons from the firm Bufete de Monitoreo de Conditions e Integridad (BMCI). The six injured are treated in hospitals, one of them is in serious condition and the others are in recovery.

It is confirmed that the fire that arose while the COTEMAR and BMCI companies carried out scheduled preventive maintenance tasks, cleaning the lines of the suction heads and gas discharge from the pneumatic pump compressors was controlled.

Faced with this emergency, the Director General, Octavio Romero Oropeza, moved to the damaged platform and later to Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, in order to verify that the injured and the affected families are being treated correctly, as well as to supervise the work of search for the missing and expedite the repair and rehabilitation of the damaged platform.

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