Video | A fiery eye in the middle of the ocean and tops the news of the world! .. the whole story

Written By سنان خلف on 2021/07/03

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

Weather of Arabia - Videos of the fiery eye that appeared as if it were a fire emanating from the middle of the ocean in the Gulf of Mexico topped the world's most important news on social media for this Saturday, so what is the story of this fiery eye that occupied the world?

 

In fact, these common scenes are due to an explosion that occurred in a pipeline to transport gas, and the pipeline passes under sea water in the Gulf of Mexico, 150 meters from a drilling platform for the oil production facility “Co-Mallop”, so that the burning gas continues to exit from the pipeline towards the surface of the sea, as if A fiery eye, or a hot spring.

 

 

 

For its part, the State Oil Company of Mexico "Pemex" stated that a fire broke out in the sea off Mexico, due to a gas leak, in an underwater pipeline, and that the process of extinguishing the fire took 5 and a half hours.

 

 

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

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