Bad oil platform on Tuesday on Tuesday, killing at least four people and injuring more than 20, and there are missing, Egyptian authorities reported in the early hours.
The ADAM Marine 12 drilling rig was overturned in the Jabal El Zetic area in northeast Egypt, about 250 kilometers from the entrance of the Suez Canal, the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources via Facebook said.
📸: The number of missing persons in the oil rig overturning accident in the has risen to 4, with 4 confirmed dead by drowning and 23 others injured with fractures.
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He clarified that he was notified of the accident by Offshore Shukeir Oil Company Co. (Osoco). He did not explain, however, the reasons for the accident.
“There were four people in the air, and another 18 were treated by ambulances at El Jouna Hospital” in eastern Egypt, while the corpses “still four were transferred to the General Hospital in Hurgada” (east), said.
The Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Haled Abdel Gafar, as well as the ministers of oil and labor, are closely monitoring the situation, according to the same source.
‘Obstacles’ to trade through the Suez Canal
The Suez Canal, in the homonymous gulf, is a maritime route of strategic importance for transport, from Asia to Europe and vice versa.
About 12% of the commodities, which were marketed worldwide, passed through it, before they began, at the end of 2023, the attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels against ships in the Red Sea, in solidarity, as they point out, to the Palestinians in the strip.
In 2021, a 200,000 -ton container ship, Ever Given, hired a shore of the Suez Canal, closing it for six days, causing a multi -day “stroke” in the international – by sea – trade.
