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Worker killed in Cantarell accident



By Tom Liskey 

Mexican state-run oil company Pemex said an offshore oil worker died at the Cantarell complex late last night when a vessel was unloading casing onto a platform.

This latest mishap extends a series of causalities at its offshore operations that have left more than twenty dead and two still missing in less than a month.

Pemex said the latest worker to die, Gonzalo Roque Lopez, had been with the company for 13 years and died just before midnight. He died when he slipped as the pipe casing was being unloaded onto the Sihil-A platform.

Emergency medical personnel tried to aid him, but he died immediately, Pemex said.

The Mexican newspaper La Jornada, on its online edition, said the worker died when a pipe that was being unloaded from the vessel Pacific 18 hit him in the head.

Since early October, more than 20 Pemex and other third party contracted workers have died. The personnel died or were lost at sea at incidents spanning from support vessels sinking I the Bay of Campeche to the Usumacinta disaster when the rig was tossed into a light drill platform by high waves and winds.


Wednesday, 07 November, 2007, 15:35 GMT  | last updated: Wednesday, 07 November, 2007, 15:40 GMT

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