Mexico’s state-owned PEMEX says an oil platform has exploded in Campeche Bay. 300 workers have been evacuated and the company says 8 boats are attempting to bring the blaze under control. Here’s the company’s statement posted on Twitter (via Google translate): We're taking fire that was raised today at dawn in the Abkatun Permanent platform Campeche.. Nearly 300 workers have been evicted platform. To meet the emergency, it has 8 firefighting boats. Cerca de 300 trabajadores de la plataforma han sido desalojados. Para atender la emergencia, se cuenta con 8 barcos contraincendio — Petróleos Mexicanos (@Pemex) https://twitter.com/Pemex/status/583269412569894912!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); 8 barcos contraincendio atienden la explosión en una plataforma petrolera en https://twitter.com/hashtag/M%C3%A9xico?src=hash!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); [FOTOS] http://t.co/kcKTWzIFWC pic.twitter.com/8NmXIZxMuj — RT en Español (@ActualidadRT) https://twitter.com/ActualidadRT/status/583278147614949377!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); * * * And as for crude: