Campeche News

 

Spectrum, Schlumberger enter 2D agreement

May 19, 2015

Spectrum entered into a cooperation agreement with Schlumberger to jointly acquire and process Spectrum's offshore Mexico Campeche-Yucatan 2D regional multi-client program. The cooperation agreement includes more than 44,000km of regional…

Developing KMZ

May 01, 2015

Jerry Lee provides an overview of Mexico’s Ku-Maloob-Zaap (KMZ) heavy oilfield in the Bay of Campeche. Pemex’s Ku-S central processing installation at the Ku-Maloob-Zaap oilfield in the Bay of Campeche offshore Mexico…

FoundOcean completes Ayatsil-A grouting

Apr 28, 2015

FoundOcean completed the grouting for an 8-legged jacket in the Bay of Campeche, Mexico. The project, completed on behalf of McDermott was mobilized from Port Fourchon, Louisiana. In the case of Ayatsil-A, FoundOcean was able to provide a bespoke grouting solution…

What lies beneath

Apr 09, 2015

Most of the Mexican side of the Gulf of Mexico remains unexplored. Dan McConnell explores the geotechnical knowns and unknowns in the basin. Acquiring geotechnical data for platform foundation design in Mexico’s Bay of Campeche…

The Mexican offshore contract market

Apr 09, 2015

While the countdown to Round One has dominated activities in the Mexican offshore sector over the past 12 months, there have still been other notable contracts awarded. Pemex’s Ku-S platform in the Bay of Campeche…

PEMEX to restore Abkatún production

Apr 06, 2015

After a fire that killed four workers, with three still missing, Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) began to restore production at the Abkatún central processing platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Abkatún A. From PEMEX Flickr…

Deadly PEMEX fire under investigation

Apr 03, 2015

The attorney general’s office of Mexico is investigating the Petróleos Mexicanos' (PEMEX) Abkatún Permanente platform incident that left four dead, 16 injured and three missing, for possible charges of murder and mischief. The Abkatún Permanente platform…

PEMEX platform fire out

Apr 02, 2015

The fire that broke out on the Petróleos Mexicanos' (PEMEX) Abkatún Permanente platform, causing the death of four workers and several injuries, was extinguished late last night (1 April). The Abkatún Permanente platform after the fire…

Four dead from fire aboard PEMEX platform

Apr 01, 2015

Four people are dead and several injured following a fire on Petróleos Mexicanos' (PEMEX) Abkatún Permanente platform in the Bay of Campeche, offshore Mexico. PEMEX confirmed the four casualties on its Twitter account around 12:30 p.m…

What lies beneath

Mar 01, 2015

Most of the Mexican side of the Gulf of Mexico remains unexplored. Dan McConnell explores the geotechnical knowns and unknowns in the basin. Acquiring geotechnical data for platform foundation design in Mexico’s Bay of Campeche Image from Fugro…

Seaway completes Pemex installations

Jan 29, 2015

Seaway Heavy Lifting installed the last three topsides in one week for Pemex using its crane vessel Oleg Strashnov in the Gulf of Mexico. Out of a string of jackets and topsides in the Gulf of Mexico the last topside was installed on 28 January in the Bay of Campeche…

McDermott gets Pemex Ayatsil-A Installation gig

Jan 05, 2015

McDermott International obtained a contract to install the offshore jacket, deck and piles for the Ayatsil-A drilling platform for Pemex Exploracion y Produccion in the Bay of Campeche Ayatsil field. Ayatsil…

Pemex installs compression platform at Tsimin-Xux

Nov 26, 2014

Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) installed the CA-Litoral-A production processing and compression platform in the Tsimin-Xux development project in the Bay of Campeche, Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Image from Pemex…

Pemex cancels evacuation plans off Campeche

Oct 22, 2014

Updated at 22 October 2014 at 3 p.m. Pemex called off the evacuation of its 15,000 workers in the Bay of Campeche after severe weather conditions improved.  Earlier today, OE reported that Mexican national Pemex began evacuating its…

Pemex awards Fugro $31.5 million survey

Sep 03, 2014

Mexico’s Pemex awarded an offshore multi-site geophysical and geotechnical survey to Fugro and Constructora Subacuatica Diavaz, S.A. de C.V. The contract, valued at US$31.5 million, includes offshore operations, laboratory testing and…

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