the Accident occurred last Friday at a leaky bränslepipeline where an unknown number of people tried to steal the petrol ran out.
Mexico’s minister of security Alfonso Durazo says that the state company Pemex is not turned off the flow to the management when it was discovered the leak, then it was felt that it was not significant. Instead, it took four hours.
and up to 800 people are expected to have arrived and filled up plastic containers with petrol, writes Reuters.
the Government also receives criticism for not doing enough to prevent people to get there and that the flow in the pipe was too loud when they were up and running after several weeks of shutdown. The crack must have occurred at a location previously repaired, and gave way because of pressure.
According to Gonzalo Monroy, head of the energy consultancy GMEC, resumed the Pemex operation in order to avoid a new bensinbrist in Mexico City, writes Reuters. Despite signs of leakage decided responsible on Pemex to keep the production line going, and let the inspect the pipe, he said.
said that the company followed the regulatory framework and that the explosion occurred half an hour after that the Pemex was closed by the management, when there were high-octane gasoline left in the tube.
Pemex has not commented on the data.
Despite the disaster, president Lopez Obrador has not changed in the fight against bränslestölderna.
– I will not be back. I can only offer people the excuses on this situation, causing damage and inconvenience, ” he said at a press briefing, according to Reuters.
also to the availability of fuels will soon be normalized because Mexico buys more tankers to transport the fuel.
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