Two dead in new Mexico oil rig accident

May 06, 2015 01:34

At least two workers died today as an oil maintenance platform tilted over the sea off Mexico's east coast, forcing the evacuation of 101 employees, the Pemex energy firm said.

The jackup rig, owned by a Pemex contractor named Typhoon Offshore, began to list in the Sound of Campeche area of the Gulf of Mexico after a "failure" in one of its movable legs, the company said in a statement.

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