Last Wednesday, a deadly fire damaged a Gulf of Mexico oil-drilling platform. The incident killed four people and injured many workers. At that time, three workers went missing and since then, the officials have been searching them.

On Sunday, Mexican officials said that they have decided to continue the search for the missing workers. They also said that repairs have begun to resume production at the facility. While providing information about the incident, officials from the national oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, stated that the fire killed about four people and injured 45 others. According to them, the deadly fire forced the evacuation of about 300 workers.

The officials also stated that the work of repairing has begun and production will be resumed soon. Gustavo Hernandez, Pemex's director general of exploration and production, said, "It will be possible to reach in the next week 80 percent of the production that there was before the accident".

Pemex stated that it expects to meet its output target of more than 640,000 barrels per day for the region despite the shut down on the oil-drilling platform after the fire incident. The deadly fire broke out on the company's Abkatun Permanente processing platform in the oil-rich Bay of Campeche. The fire incident led to the evacuation of more than 300 workers, as per the company.

According to Hernandez, the fire incident led the company to close production of about 220,000 barrels per day, with about 170,000 barrels per day coming back online between Sunday and Monday.

About three years ago, more than two dozen people were killed in a fire at a Pemex natural gas facility. In 2013, more than 35 people had died after a blast at the Mexico City headquarters of the company.