While we restored production from these wells as of August 30, 2021, this shutdown resulted in a decrease in production of 1.6 million barrels. Unfortunately, seven people lost their lives and six people were injured in the fire.ĭue to the fire, Pemex temporarily halted production at 125 wells. On August 22, 2021, a fire broke out on the E-Ku-A2 platform of Pemex’s Ku-A processing center in the Ku-Maloob Zaap business unit. In the end, Pemex could not reach an agreement regarding the unification of the Zama field and, therefore, Sener was empowered to award control of the field. Pemex had been in talks with the Block 7 Consortium, which is made up of Talos Energy Offshore Mexico 7, Sierra O&G Exploración y Producción (now a WSDM company) and Premier Oil Exploration and Production México, in order to jointly submit a proposal for unification agreement to the Sener. Then, on July 5, 2021, the Ministry of Energy ( Sener) granted Pemex control of the Zama field. There were no oil leaks as a result of the accident and no injuries or deaths were reported. The oil company repaired the pipeline and controlled the gas leak in five hours. The resulting gas leak caused a fire in the ocean.Īccording to Pemex’s own investigation, lightning in the area caused the fire when it struck gas that had risen to the surface of the ocean. But depending on career politicians to make difficult decisions in the name of environmental justice does not feel nearly as sustainable as the model implemented in Memphis.Pemex reported that on July 2, 2021, an underwater gas pipeline ruptured in its Ku-Maloob-Zaap field in the Gulf of Mexico. That this is the case is an indictment of the current administration but also a testament to the power of communities, regardless of socioeconomic or political status.Īt present, projects like the Line 3, Line 5, Dakota Access, and Jordan Cove pipelines are, theoretically, one stroke of the president’s pen away from cancellation. to attain some semblance of environmental justice. Local and regional rejections of extractive energy production, particularly those of the fossil fuel variety, may currently be the best opportunity for communities within the U.S. The Memphis victory, like the ACP victory, presents a possibility. It’s the same one being employed by Line 3 water protectors and allies in Minnesota. It is the same approach that was taken by Black and Native communities throughout Virginia and North Carolina as Duke and Dominion Energy pulled strings within the state governments to try and force through the Atlantic Coast pipeline. Local, community-driven resistance has been one of the most effective ways to highlight and counter the cold ruthlessness of extractive outfits. “For the past 50 years, this specific community in Memphis has received whatever the rest of Memphis and Shelby County would dare not accept in other places.” “This community is standing up and saying no more, we’ve had enough,” Robinson told ABC News. In partnership with the Memphis-based environmental group Protect Our Aquifer, the communities filed lawsuits against Plains All American, pressured and petitioned Tennessee state agencies to rescind the pipeline’s permits, and advocated for their rights to live on unpolluted lands, until they organized their way into the national spotlight. But a group of citizens-Sanford names “Justin Pearson, Kizzy Jones, Kathy Robinson, and others who launched Memphis Community Against Pollution”-took a stand.
A land agent working for the company reportedly even went as far as to admit that Plains All American constructed the route because the company believed it offered, “the point of least resistance.” In other words: Rich white political donors do not live there, making it the ideal location for an underground pipeline. In a statement, a spokesperson for Plains All American wrote that the decision was the result of “lower US oil production resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic.” But as Otis Sanford argued at Local 24 News, the pipeline also failed because the communities affected came together and said no.īyhalia Connection’s developers believed, based on decades of industry practice, that they could get away with slating an oil pipeline to run through several Black neighborhoods in southwest Memphis.
On Monday, oil pipeline company Plains All American announced that it will be shelving its plan to construct the Byhalia Connection pipeline, a project also sponsored by Valero that was slated to cut through Memphis on its way to Byhalia, Mississippi, where its oil would then be exported.
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