7 Missing Oil Workers Found Alive But 1 Dies in Mexico Hospital

Posted in Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Maritime Accidents,Texas Maritime News,World Maritime News on September 12, 2011

According to a statement from Mexico’s state oil company, Pemex, 7 of the missing oil workers were found alive on Sunday Sept 11, but one of the survivors, Kham Nadimuzzaman of Bangladesh, later died Sunday evening in the hospital after being rescued from three days at sea adrift in the Gulf of Mexico.

The 10 workers were forced to abandon the disabled Trinity II liftboat three days ago and board an enclosed life raft in the midst of a tropical storm. Pemex identified the 6 survivors as two U.S. citizens, Jeremy Parfait and Ted Derise, Jr., both from Louisiana and Ruben Velasquez, Eleaquin Lopez, Luis Escobar and Ruben Lopez Villalobos, all from Mexico.

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Forbes.com reports:

They were found 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the coast of the Gulf state of Campeche by the ship Bourbon Artavaze and taken by helicopter to the Campeche port city of Ciudad del Carmen, where they were admitted to a Pemex regional hospital.

The fate of the other two Americans, identified previously as Louisiana residents Craig Myers and Nick Reed, was still not clear Monday.

The Mexican navy said four survivors and one of the dead were found in a boat, while three other survivors and a body were found in the water.

All were working for Houston-based Geokinetics Inc. on a liftboat owned by Trinity Liftboat Services based in New Iberia, Louisiana. All four U.S. citizens were from the New Iberia area, including Reed, who is the son of liftboat company owner Randy Reed.

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