Mexican state-run oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos will focus on existing shallow water assets and refining next year at the expense of riskier, deepwater projects under a new government that has vowed to turn around the ailing company.The 2019…
Dutch firms Frames and Mokveld have completed two high integrity pressure protection systems (HIPPS) for the Pemex Lakach field gas collection station. The system is the first ever certified HIPPS in Mexico, says Frames. The contract…
Tata has marked an industry first, with its pipeline becoming the first to be laid at more than 3000ft water depth in the Mexican Gulf of Mexico. The ca.140km of 457mm (18in) outer diameter x 28.6mm WT API 5L PSL2 X65MO line pipe was…
Quest Offshore assesses the drilling, subsea, and marine construction dynamics affecting of one of the world’s pre-eminent deepwater basins amid the downturn. The Gulf of Mexico has long been a region of critical importance to the global deepwater industry…
Despite the ongoing bribery investigations, Petrobras is ploughing ahead with new FPSOs. Pietro Ferreira, of the Energy Industries Council, outlines current contracting activity in Brazil and in Mexico. Ferreira…
Heather Saucier examines the potential of deepwater plays to be auctioned in Mexico’s next offshore round, including the most prized area in the Perdido Fold Belt. Shell’s deepwater Perdido spar in the US Gulf of Mexico…
Wood Group has been awarded a three-year offshore engineering blanket order by PEMEX Procurement International for field development in Mexico’s Gulf of Mexico waters. The agreement, valued at up to US$28 million, encompasses deepwater and complex shallow water concept and basic engineering…
Saipem awarded Aker Solutions its first order offshore Mexico at the Pemex-operated Lakach deepwater natural gas field. Lakach map. From Pemex. Lakach, Mexico's first subsea gas development with onshore processing facilities…
Following Mexico’s historic energy reforms, Fernando C. Hernandez of Reaching Ultra, discusses what is still needed in order to make Mexico a major deepwater player. Fig. 2: The Perdido Hub as seen from a crew boat…
Infield Systems’ Catarina Podevyn takes a look at recent oil price movements and market conditions on the deepwater (500m+) capex spending up to 2019. Olympus platform in deepwater US Gulf of Mexico…
OE’s Audrey Leon spoke with Francisco Nunez, regional sales manager, Latin America, at OneSubsea, about the opening of Mexico’s oil and gas industry and what effects it will have on both OneSubsea and the industry at large. Please explain…
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…
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…
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…
Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) awarded the Houston-based, Cameron-Schlumberger joint venture OneSubsea, a US$270 million subsea production systems contract for the Lakach deepwater project offshore Mexico. The Lakach project is the first deepwater subsea field to be developed by Pemex…