“Today, 700,000 barrels of losses have been reflected (…) because we have closed practically all the wells in the area,” he said on the company’s Twitter account.
The manager added that as of Saturday afternoon, 600,000 barrels of oil had already been recovered.
The state company said that the search for the person who disappeared after the fire in Cantarell, an emblematic asset that currently produces some 170,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd), was still continuing.
Located in the so-called Sonda de Campeche, about 85 kilometers from Ciudad del Carmen, Cantarell is made up of a series of fields in the marine area.
Most of Mexico’s crude production, at 1.6 million bpd, comes from the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico.