The fire started early Friday on the Nohoch-A link platform of the company’s Cantarell Field and later moved to a compression complex, killing two people. The fire has since been controlled, the company said.
“Today, 700,000 barrels of losses have been reflected (…) because we closed practically all the wells in the area,” Romero said via the company’s Twitter account.
As of Saturday afternoon, 600,000 barrels of production had resumed, the executive added.
The company said that searchers were still looking for the person who disappeared after the fire in Cantarell, an emblematic asset that produces some 170,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd).