Last week, workers at the Hijos de J. Barreras SA shipyard (Astillero Barreras) in Vigo, northwest Spain, laid the keel for a new floating accommodation vessel for Pemex Exploration and Production.
The Barreras shipyard was founded in the Galicia region in 1892. Pemex subsidiary Comercio Internacional (PMI) signed a letter of intent with the shipyard on 2 May 2013, and acquired 51% interest in the shipyard on 26 November 2013.
Barreras President José Garcia Costas described it as a "shared effort to reactivate [the] ship-making industry in Spain" and said the agreement will also "allow developing specialized ship making capabilities in Mexico in the medium term."
PMI CEO José Manuel Carrera attended the keel-laying ceremony on 6 August.
Photo at right from the signing includes José Garcia Costas, José Manuel Carrera, Carlos Roa (Pemex), and Francisco Conde Lopez (industry counselor in the regional government, Xunta de Galicia).
The ship will be 131m long x 27m wide, and will include two cranes, each with a lifting capacity of 15 tons to a height of 20m, and a helipad. Designed with cabins, offices, locker rooms, workshops, conference room, meeting room, nursing, medical office and kitchen, it will be able to house 700 people.
Pemex placed the order for the flotel in 2012; the contract is reported to be worth US$190 million. Construction began in February, when the first steel was cut, and the vessel is scheduled to be delivered in July 2016.
Pemex also ordered a similar flotel from Navantia, a state-owned Spanish shipyard, for the same price.
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PEMEX orders Spanish flotels, 30 January 2014
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