Seventeen people were injured, four seriously, when a fire broke out in the early hours of Tuesday at Chevron’s deep-water Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco (BBLT) oil platform, Angolan authorities and the U.S. oil major said in statements.
The cause of the fire, which occurred in the basement deck of the multi-story drilling production platform in the Block 14 concession some 60 miles (97 km) offshore the Cabinda coast, is currently under investigation.
“All of them are now on land and receiving appropriate medical care,” Angola’s National Agency for Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels said in its