Pemex Platform Explosion Leaves Two Dead, Impacts Output (4)

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.

A fire broke out at 5:25 a.m. local time Friday at the Nohoch Alfa platform processing center in the Cantarell oil ...