Hydrocarbon Slicks Detected During Gulf of Mexico Inspection Flight
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After the oil spill registered in February in the Campeche Sound - which affected more than 630 kilometers of coastline after the rupture of a Pemex pipeline-, the Agency for Safety, Energy and Environment (ASEA) made a monitoring overflight in the Gulf of Mexico, where it detected feathers, that is, visible dispersion spots in the water, in areas close to Cantarell. The air route departed from Pemex heliport in Ciudad del Carmen towards offshor…
After a February spill, ASEA detected feathers—dispersal spots—in areas of Cantarell during an overflight in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Agency for Safety, Energy, and Environment (ASEA) in coordination with Pemex supervises various points in the Gulf of Mexico to deal with the hydrocarbon spill that occurred in past days. The monitoring work began at the Pemex Helipad-Air Terminal facilities in Ciudad del Carmen to the Campeche Sound, to supervise offshore facilities for the production of hydrocarbons. ASEA and Pemex supervise the spill in the Gulf of Mexico Inspectors of th…
The agency reported that it will maintain regular verification routes in coordination with Pemex and the Marine Secretariat to monitor the presence of hydrocarbons in the affected area.
Oil facilities in the Bay of Campeche are maintaining normal operations with no signs of widespread contamination on the sea surface, as part of the follow-up to protocols implemented after the February 2016 oil spill. This assessment resulted from an environmental monitoring overflight coordinated by the Agency for Safety, Energy and the Environment (ASEA), with support from the Mexican Navy (SEMAR) and Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), along the Gu…
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