On this episode of What's Going On With Shipping, Sal Mercogliano - Associate Professor of History at Campbell University and former merchant mariner - compares the fire caused by a natural gas leak at the KMZ Mexican oil field to that of Deepwater Horizon in 2011. He also provides some more details and reports from PEMEX on the incident, along with the context of why there are pipelines on the ocean floor. A Fire-Eye Erupts on the Gulf of Mexico | What's Going on With Shipping? July 2, 2021 https://youtu.be/i_7IlwqK3kA Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster https://www.harpercollins.com/products/fire-on-the-horizon-tom-shroderjohn-konrad?variant=32122738835490 Mexico’s Pemex Battles Crazy Fire Near Offshore Oil Platform in Gulf of Mexico https://gcaptain.com/mexicos-pemex-battles-crazy-fire-near-offshore-oil-platform-in-gulf/ Pemex controls gas and fire emanation in the submarine pipeline near the KU-C satellite platform in the Campeche Sound https://www.pemex.com/saladeprensa/boletines_regionales/Paginas/2021-021_cddelcarmen.aspx Mexico: Overview of Oil and Gas Industry http://energy-cg.com/Mexico/Mexico_OilGasOverview_Image1x1_Jan15_EnergyConsutlingGroup_web.png BOEM/BSEE Data Center-Pipelines https://bobson.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=4f2ae15890cc4885984291ef2576f80f Mexico still needs international investment to either maintain the growing trend or stabilise its production level, despite positive oil production growth in 2020 https://www.offshore-technology.com/comment/oil-production-growth-mexico-investment/ Campache Oil Field Map http://www.euanmearns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/KMZ0908A.jpg