When an underwater gas pipeline leaks, you have a problem. And with the Gulf of Mexico, that problem is quite literally water that had lit on fire and which has since been extinguished.

The Gulf of Mexico has been a site for previous disasters caused by oil production. In 2010, a BP oil rig exploded, releasing over 130 million gallons of crude oil into the body of water, making ...

A pit of fire burned in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday after an underwater pipeline rupture. Mexican state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said in a tweet that the fire was ...

Mexico's oil safety regulator claims no oil was spilled during the fire incident. The fire occurred near a Pemex oil platform on the Gulf of Mexico. You are viewing 1 of 4 images Previous Image ...

The fire began in an underwater pipeline that connects to a platform at Pemex’s flagship Ku Maloob Zaap oil development, the company’s most important, four sources told Reuters earlier.

Gulf of Mexico: "Eye of fire" blaze from gas leak in underwater pipeline becomes viral video (CNN) (CNN Newsource) By CNN Published : Jul. 2, 2021 at 9:09 PM CDT ...

Video of part of the ocean in flames in the Gulf of Mexico has now been viewed more than 20 million times after a leak from a gas pipeline caused a fire off the Yucatan peninsula.

It takes a lot to start a fire in the ocean. After all, water usually extinguishes flames. But as Pemex demonstrated last week in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, the right set of conditions — a ...

Videos of a huge fire on the ocean surface west of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula went viral and the shocking footage was quickly dubbed the “eye of fire” on social media. The massive ring of ...

As a record-breaking heat wave scorches the Pacific Northwest, down south in the Gulf of Mexico the ocean literally caught on fire Friday. Just another totally normal day in these fiery end times ...

The fire raged in the Ku Maloob Zaap oil field, located near the southern rim of the Gulf of Mexico, around 5:15 a.m. local time and was completely extinguished by 10:30 a.m., according to Mexico ...

Fire on surface of Gulf of Mexico is extinguished, but questions about pipeline leak remain July 3, 2021 A logo of the Mexican state oil firm Pemex is pictured in 2020.