#Ocean on fire plus

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#Ocean on fire plus

Click the AdBlock Plus icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner.Refresh the page or click the button below to continue.Under “ Pause on this site” click “ Always”.Click the AdBlock icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner.In other news, Antarctica has just recorded its highest temperature ever.Īdblock Adblock Plus Adblocker Ultimate Ghostery uBlock Origin Others The company that set the Gulf of Mexico on fire has sucked the easiest-to-extract oil out of the seafloor, seen production fall off, and as a result, is failing financially with $114 billion in debt /HAkjGmH0d1 This looks like a scene from a Constantine sequel /p3yw83pFau Yes, the sea is on fire in the gulf of Mexico. It is connected to a platform operated by Mexican oil giant Pemex that was producing 726,000 barrels per day of oil equivalent at the moment of the incident. While the leak did not produce any spill in the ocean, many are using this incident as a chance to voice out the detrimental impact that offshore drilling has on Mother Nature.Īn underwater gas pipeline has caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico. The fire was put out in roughly five hours with the help of the firm’s fireboats. With the decline in production, due to the lack of reinvestment in new extraction tech, the state-owned petroleum company has hit almost $114 billion USD in debt. The Ku Maloob Zaap is made up of 82 drilling wells and 17 oil platforms and was, at one point, responsible for producing over 800,000 barrels of oil a day. Resembling molten lava, the fire was traced back to a pipe that was connected to Pemex’s flagship Ku Maloob Zaap oil field. '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.Many were left in awe after seeing the ocean on fire with the internet calling it the Eye of Fire and the Gate to Hell. 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. following a gas leak about 500 feet from a drilling platform, Pemex tweeted. The 'fire in the sea' was put out at 10:45 a.m. 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.