President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador) bet on drilling more wells and buying or building oil refineries. He touted oil as “the best business in the world.”

Greenpeace wrote in a statement that it took five hours for the spark to be extinguished, “proving that Mexico’s fossil fuel model poses a serious risk to the environment and people’s safety.”

Climate activist Greta Thunberg retweeted a video clip of a giant fireball on her Twitter account.

“At the same time, those in power call themselves’climate leaders’ when they open up new oil fields, pipelines and coal-fired power plants-granting new petroleum permits to explore future oil drilling sites,” Tumberg wrote. “This is the world they left for us.”

The Mexican state oil company said on Friday that a submarine gas pipeline ruptured near a drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

Petroleos Mexicanos sent fire boats to pump water above the flames. As we all know, Pemex stated that no one was injured in the incident at the Ku-Maloob-Zaap oil field offshore.

A leak occurred at dawn on Friday, about 137 meters from the drilling platform. The company said that after about five hours, they had controlled the gas leak.

It is not yet clear how much environmental damage was caused by gas leaks and ocean fireballs.