Petrobras Platform Explosion Kills 5 at Gas Field Off Brazil
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Five workers died and four went missing in an explosion on a production vessel at a natural-gas field off Brazil’s coast operated by state-run Petroleo Brasileiro SA, said Norway’s BW Offshore Ltd., the ship’s owner.
The number of confirmed casualties in the explosion aboard the floating production, storage and offloading unit Cidade de Sao Mateus rose from three on Wednesday, and the chances of finding the missing workers alive were slim, said Torfinn Buaroey, senior vice president for Fleet Americas and Europe at Oslo-based BW Offshore.