Pemex Platform Explosion Leaves Two Dead, Impacts Output
- Pemex says one of five processing centers was destroyed
- Company has faced scrutiny over safety, environment record
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Two people died and one remains missing after a Petroleos Mexicanos natural gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico exploded early Friday, the company said.
Pemex CEO Octavio Romero said in a video that the two people who died and the one missing worked for a different company he didn’t name. He added in a separate video that eight workers were injured, three from Pemex and five from the other company, but their lives are no longer in danger.