Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) has said the cause of the 'eye of fire' that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on July 2 was the combination of a thunderstorm and a leak in a gas pipeline. The oil company said there was no oil spill and that immediate action to control the fire on the surface helped prevent any environmental damage.
Offshore Apache oil company was fined £400,000 after it failed to provide written safety procedures for the depressurisation of an oil well, prompting the release of more than 1000kg of hydrocarbon gas at its Beryl Alpha production facility in the North Sea.
ARPEL (Regional Association of Companies in the Oil, Gas and Bio-fuels Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean) recently signed a memorandum of cooperation with WisePlant Group, with the aim of jointly promoting projects, studies, events and courses related to cybersecurity in critical infrastructures, in the search to make the most of the strengths of each one for the benefit of this issue that every day has more relevance in the oil industry and gas.
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