Accident Aboard Pemex Jack-Up Kills Two, Injures 10
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...Pemex said the Troll Solution rig, which was contracted to operate in Pemexs Abkatun-Pol-Chuc shallow water oil field, was positioning itself to carry out maintenance on wells linked to the Caan Alf platform....
...Local media put the injured toll at 28 workers.
A Grupo Salinas spokesperson added that there was no oil or gas spilled as a nearby well was closed prior to the incident.
Photos circulated on social media showed dark streaks in the water stretching a few hundred meters (yards) from what appeared to be the platform, which was tilting steeply.
A Pemex spokesman also said there had been no crude spill but added that the platform probably contained diesel. That could have fallen into the water, he added....
Jack up drilling platforms leave the equivalent of gopher holes where the legs punch into mud. Next jack-up on site has to make allowances. Possible a leg positioned too close could have started a collapse into one of them and buckled.