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Pemex contracts 3 semi-submersible drilling rigs
Petroleumworld
CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com 08 02 07
Carlos Morales, CEO of Pemex's E&P subsidiary (PEP) said on a conference call, Mexico's state oil company Pemex has contracted three semi-submersible drilling rigs for deepwater activity.
Two of the rigs have the capability to drill up to 2,100m, while the third can reach a depth of 3,000m.
All three of the rigs will be available in 2010, Morales said." Furthermore, Pemex is in the process of contracting an additional rig that will begin to operate in 2008 in water with depths greater than 2,000m," Morales said.
Morales also announced that Pemex has completed drilling the Lalaí well in the Coatzacoalcos Profundo area in the offshore Gulf of Mexico B region.The well has a depth of 800m and is currently in the testing phase, Morales said.
Morales spoke about the specific plans for the Cantarell and Ku-Maloob-Zaap fields for the remainder of this year.Pemex aims to start operations of the Cantarell field, Takín A and Akal TQ pipelines, finish 18 development wells, begin operations at two trains of its nitrogen recovery unit, construct pipelines for the Akal DB and BN rigs, and finish three horizontal wells.
During Q2 Pemex finished seven development wells on Cantarell, plus 21 major repairs and 13 minor repairs. The company also began operations of the Takín A rig and two horizontal wells.
Pemex aims to start operations of production rigs at the KMZ fields in 2H07 PB-Zaap-C and PB-KU-H, finish five pipelines with a total 18.2km length, drill 12 development wells and inject 300Mf3/d of nitrogen for pressure maintenance purposes.
At KMZ, the company started operations of the PB-KU-S rig in May, finished four marine pipelines with a total 14.4km length, and began operations of its "Señor del Mar" floating production, storage and dispatch unit.
Cantarell, which accounts for nearly half of Pemex's crude output, registered an average 1.58Mb/d of crude production level in 1H07.
Morales added, that KMZ fields reached a maximum historic output in late June of roughly 563,000b/d after starting operations of seven new wells in May and June, Morales said.Pemex drilled 169 wells in 2Q07, down 6% from the same period last year. Of the total, only 12 were exploratory wells compared to 20 in 2Q06, mainly due to less activity in Lankahuasa, Campeche Oriente and Campeche Poniente.
Production of light crude increased 0.4% and super light crude 17%, largely as a result of conclusion and repair of wells in the southwest marine basin. Light and super light crude output reached a combined total of 1.03Mb/d, thereby making up 33% of total production compared to 30% in 2Q06.
Petroleumworld 01 08 07
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