Petrobras issued a note this afternoon informing that 13 more workers were injured after the fire on the PCH-1 platform (Cherne 1), in the Campos Basin, about 130 kilometers from the coast of Macaé, in Rio de Janeiro.
With this, the number of injured reaches 14. Earlier, the company had informed that a company service provider suffered light burns And I was aware. The employee fell into the sea during the accident.
“The worker rescued at sea is in hospital care on land, conscious and stable. 13 other workers who provide service to the company were classified as injured and are also receiving care in a hospital in the region,” says the statement released in the afternoon by the company.
According to Petrobras, since the year 2020, the PCH-1 platform (Cherne 1) does not produce oil.
According to the General Coordinator of the North Fluminense Oil Union (Sindipetro-NF) and director of the Single Petrolers Federation (FUP), Sergio Borges Cordeiro, 176 workers were aboard the platform.
“Gas flow was interrupted, the platform’s communications fell and emergency vessels were fired. Sindipetro-NF follows the case and charges urgent measures,” wrote Cordeiro on social networks.
Petrobras reported that other people on the platform are well and that “a commission will be formed to investigate the causes of the incident.”
Accidents in 2024
According to the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP), the exploration and oil production activities in the country recorded 731 accidents last year.
According to the data, 183 people were injured, 78 with gravity, and a death was recorded.
