墨西哥灣一石油平臺發生大火
Four people have died and 300 workers have been evacuated after a serious fire broke out on a Pemex platform in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mexican state-owned oil company said on Wednesday.
A fire broke out at dawn at its Abkatun Permanente platform off the coast at Campeche Bay in Mexico, and Pemex confirmed in a tweet that four people had been killed.
大火發生在當日清晨，起火的Abkatun Permanente平臺位於墨西哥坎佩切灣附近。該公司在一則Twitter消息中確認，4人在大火中喪生。It said in a separate statement that 16 workers have been injured, two of which are in serious conditions.
在另外一份聲明中，該公司表示有16名工人受傷，其中兩人傷勢嚴重。
The company added that 8 firefighting boats have been deployed to fight the blaze.
它補充說，8艘消防船已被派往當地滅火。According to the US Energy Information Administration, the Bay of Campeche is an important source of oil production for Mexico.
美國能源情報署(US Energy Information Administration)的數據顯示，坎佩切灣是墨西哥重要的石油產地。The Abkatun-Pol-Chuc offshore oilfields, where the platform that has erupted in fire is located, produced under 300,000 barrels per day in 2013, a decrease of more than half from a peak in the mid-1990s of 700,000 barrels.
失火平臺所在的Abkatun-Pol-Chuc海上油田2013年的日產量是30萬桶以下，比上世紀90年代中期頂峯時期的70萬桶低了一半以上。The fire is likely to renew questions over Pemex's safety record.
這次火災可能會再次引發對墨西哥國家石油公司安全狀況的質疑。Two years ago, a gas leak led to a blast that killed at least 37 people at Pemex's headquarters in Mexico City.
兩年前，這家公司位於墨西哥城的總部曾因氣體泄漏導致爆炸，令至少37人喪生。News of the fire also comes as Pemex looks to court foreign investments to develop its oil fields as part of a major overhaul of its energy sector.
發生火災之際，墨西哥國家石油公司正試圖吸引外國投資者開發其旗下油田。這是墨西哥能源產業大規模整改措施的一部分。
