A oil prospective platform caught fire in the Gulf of Mexican
The US Oil Processing Platform in the Gulf of Mexico was reported by the US Coast Guard, Reuters reports. Oil production was discontinued, all staff were urgently evacuated from the platform - 28 people, no one was injured. According to the coast guard, on a platform belonging to the Texas oil company, up to 4,000 barrels of crude oil can be stored, but at the time of the fire there were only about 130 barrels in its containers (about 20 thousand liters).