Viernes, 11 Noviembre 2016

Pemex lays out the map for the road ahead

Mexican oil and gas industry likely to see big expansion of partnerships in the E&P sector as state-run company outlines five-year plan.
UPSTREAMONLINE.COM

Mexico’s state oil company Pemex has laid out the broad strokes of a new strategy that could dramatically expand its use of partnerships in the Mexican exploration and production sector over the next five years. The plans open up the possibility of more than 160 new opportunities for private companies over the next two years. Pemex has already announced plans for the farm-down this year of an interest in the deep-water Trion discovery, and said 2017 would also bring other farm-outs in the shallow-water area of Ayin-Batsil and the onshore areas of Ogarrio and Cardenas-Mora. The company’s latest 2016-2021 business plan also labels 2017 as its target date for partnerships in the extra-heavy oil field of Ayatsil-Tekel-Utsil and the tricky but promising region of Chicontepec, as well as seven more unspecified onshore areas in the northern and southern parts of the country.

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