Mexican Oil Well Fire Still Out of Control
Crews struggled Sunday to remove damaged platform equipment blocking the opening of an oil well that has burned out of control for four days in the Gulf of Mexico.
Flames spurted 600 feet into the air and sideways because the equipment partly blocked the opening.
A bulletin from the state-owned oil monopoly Pemex said the Abkatun 91 well, which produces about 17,000 barrels of oil a day, caught fire Thursday. It did not say what sparked the blaze in the well, in the Campeche Sound, 42 miles north of the coast of Campeche and 630 miles east of Mexico City.
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