Kazakhstan reduces oil production, production at a platform in Mexico is affected

Kazakhstan, the largest energy producer in Central Asia, reduced its daily oil production by 11 percent, after the shutdown of an energy unit in the western region of the country, while a major fire broke out on an offshore platform operated by the Mexican state oil company “Pemex” off the southern tip of the Gulf of Mexico.

The country’s daily production of crude oil and gas condensate fell to 228,300 metric tons on the seventh of July, from 252,600 tons on the second of the same month a day before the first shutdown of a unit at the Mangistau power plant, which led to a power outage, according to data reported Saturday by the Bloomberg News Agency on the unit affiliated with the ministry.
The daily production of oil in Kazakhstan reached 238,600 tons, on the sixth of July, when operations, in the power unit, were restored for less than a day. Daily oil refining was reduced to 29,300 tons on the seventh of July from 37,300 tons on the second of the same month.

Meanwhile, two workers were killed and another remained missing after a major fire broke out early on Friday morning, on an offshore platform operated by the Mexican state oil company “Pemex” off the southern tip of the Gulf of Mexico.

“Pemex” said in tweets on “Twitter” that it counted all the other workers, adding that oil production was significantly damaged by the fire.

A video circulated on social media showed the huge platform and tangled pipelines catching fire as nearby boats sought to put out the fire with water cannons.
The platform operates in the company’s Cantarell oil field, which was once one of the most productive in the world.