Incident Report

Subject:                   Incredible CCTV Video Emerges of The September Pemex Gas Plant Incident

Date of Email report:   Wed 12/12/2012

Report Detail:

INCREDIBLE CCTV vision has emerged from a natural gas pipeline explosion in Mexico that killed at least 26 people, showing just quickly the inferno ripped through the plant. An accidental leak is thought to have caused the September 18 explosion at the Pemex natural gas distribution plant in Reynosa which caused a wall of three-storey high flames to rip through the distribution centre in a the blink of an eye. The CCTV footage shows trucks and workers coming into the plant on what appears to be a routine day.

The plant, situated near the US border is operated by Mexico's state-owned oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos and the centre distributes gas to a processing plant next door which produces fuel. The explosion created a powerful fire at the natural gas plant. Eyewitnesses said the ground shook briefly before the pipeline exploded. These moving images show the impact of the blast which is followed by a cloud of thick black smoke and fire which engulfs the entire site in a matter of seconds.

Additional Documentation:

Workers of Mexican energy giant PEMEX walk by the place where a fire in the gas plant killed at least twenty six people, in Reynosa, Tamaulipas state, Mexico on September 19, 2012.

Firefighters scale a ladder as fires burn a day after an explosion at a gas plant killed at least twenty six people, in Reynosa, Mexico on September 19, 2012. New video has emeregd of the blast.