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http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/1 ... rs_of_GulfMexico's Calderon Says Pemex Finds Oil in Deep Waters of Gulf
by Dow Jones Newswires| August 29, 2012
MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday that state-owned oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, has made its first big crude-oil discovery in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Mr. Calderon said the initial estimate of a deposit in the Perdido area on Mexico's side of the Gulf was between 250 million and 400 million barrels of light crude, using the industry's broadest measurement of "proven, probable and possible," or 3P, reserves.
Mr. Calderon said Mexico's Perdido complex of deposits could hold between four billion and 10 billion barrels of crude. He said Pemex is entering into a new phase of oil discovery in the Gulf, which could hold half of Mexico's total reserves.
Pemex reported proven hydrocarbon reserves of 13.8 billion barrels of oil equivalent as of Jan. 1, 2012. Its 3P reserves were 43.8 billion barrels of oil equivalent.
The state oil firm has seen its crude oil production fall to 2.5 million barrels a day from close to 3.4 million in 2004, largely as a result of the sharp decline in the Cantarell oilfields, which lie under shallow waters in the southern Gulf of Mexico.
Pemex sees the development of deep-water reserves, and of the deposits of the onshore Chicontepec basin as the key to raising its oil production in coming years.
Quand on a un javelin dans la main, tous les problèmes ressemblent à un T-72. http://www.laht.com/article.asp?Article ... ryId=14091Pemex: Record Output at Mexico’s Most Productive Oil Field
MEXICO CITY February 18,2013
Output at Ku-Maloob-Zaap, Mexico’s most productive oil field, climbed to a record high of 865,000 barrels per day in December, state-owned oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos said.
Located offshore in the Bay of Campeche, the field accounts for roughly a third of Mexico’s total oil production of 2.57 million bpd.
“With a total of 170 oil-producing wells in operation, this field achieved record-high production in December of 865,000 bpd and 349 million cubic feet of gas,” Pemex said in a statement Friday.
The state-owned company, which has a monopoly on crude production and distribution of petroleum products in Mexico, said Ku-Maloob-Zaap is being developed under a “rigorous” and “exemplary” management plan.
The Ku-Maloob-Zaap complex comprises heavy-crude-producing fields with the Mayan names Ku, Maloob, Zaap, Bacab and Lum and was discovered between 1980 and 1991.
http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/1 ... nd_QuarterMexico's Pemex Posts Sharp Loss in Second Quarter
July 26, 2013 Rigzone
MEXICO CITY, July 26 (Reuters) - Mexican state oil monopoly Pemex on Friday posted a loss of 49 billion pesos ($3.8 billion) in the second quarter, widening its losses from the same period a year earlier on lower crude export prices and a stronger peso.
The announcement comes just weeks before the government is due to unveil a plan for a major overhaul of the oil industry aimed at attracting more private capital.
Pemex, a symbol of Mexican self-sufficiency since the industry was nationalized in 1938, is struggling to reverse a decline in crude output, which has fallen by a quarter since peaking at 3.4 million barrels per day in 2004.
Pemex said it pumped an average 2.52 million barrels per day (bpd) over the April-June period, down 1.1 percent from the same period last year.
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http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/1 ... _3_In_2013Mexico's Proven Oil And Gas Reserves Fall 3% In 2013
rigzone news April 14, 2014
Mexico's proven oil and gas reserves fell 3.1 percent in 2013, according to energy ministry data, as the nation's once-ample shallow water deposits begin to run dry.
The proven Mexican reserves totaled 13.439 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe), or down by nearly 430 million boe compared with the previous year.
Nearly three-quarters of the reserves, or 9.812 billion boe, are made up of crude oil.
The new estimate for so-called 1P certified reserves was set on Jan. 1, 2014, and covers oil and gas fields believed to have a 90 percent chance of being extracted with existing technology.
Mexico, the world's tenth-biggest crude producer, has not been able to discover and certify new oil and gas fields as fast as it has extracted resources from current production.
Proven oil and gas reserves reached 13.868 billion boe as of Jan. 1, 2013.
Reserves have remained relatively stable since 2009, but Pemex's lack of investment in exploration over many years has led to a precipitous decline in the country's reserve base.
Mexico boasted proven reserves of about 55 billion boe in 1990, but reserves have fallen sharply since.
Mexico has the third-largest proven oil reserves in Latin America, behind Venezuela and Brazil.
A landmark energy reform passed in December promises to lure major new streams of private investment into Mexico's oil and gas sector, eventually boosting reserves and output.
Secondary legislation that will set commercial and other regulatory terms of the reform championed by President Enrique Pena Nieto is expected by May.
https://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/ ... _CantarellMexico's Pemex to Spend $6B to Maintain Output at Cantarell
MEXICO CITY, July 1 (Reuters)
Mexico's state-run oil company Pemex will launch a $6 billion investment in 2017 aimed at maintaining current levels of production at its once-supergiant Cantarell field over the next decade, a Pemex official said on Tuesday.
Discovered in 1976, output from the offshore Cantarell field once supplied over 2 million barrels per day (bpd), or more than half of Mexico's total crude production.
But output at the field has fallen more than 80 percent since 2004 to hover around 340,000 barrels per day (bpd).
The investment will counteract the natural decline of Cantarell by squeezing out an additional 100,000 bpd per year via secondary recovery over the course of a decade, said Miguel Angel Lozada, Pemex's Cantarell administrator.
Lozada said that Akal, Cantarell's most productive sub-field, will be stabilized with the plan.
"By doing this we can make sure that Akal's output will remain steady at between 180,000 and 200,000 bpd for a longer period of time," he said.
In May, crude output from Akal stood at about 189,000 bpd.
A sweeping energy reform passed late last year by Mexico's Congress ended Pemex's 75-year monopoly on crude production and paves the way for new operators into the market via potentially lucrative contracts and licenses.
While Pemex is expected to keep mature assets like Cantarell under a so-called Round Zero allocation due to conclude in September, the reform will also permit first-ever joint ventures between Pemex and oil majors in new and existing developments.
Cantarell is Mexico's second highest-yielding crude field, behind Ku Maloob Zaap, which produces about 850,000 bpd.
https://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/ ... eform_BillMexico Senate Gives General Approval To Key Energy Reform Bill
MEXICO CITY, July 18 (Reuters)
Mexico's Senate gave general approval early on Friday to a key bill to regulate the opening of the oil and gas industries to private investment, the centerpiece of President Enrique Pena Nieto's economic reform agenda.
The Senate voted 90-28 to approve the general outline of the hydrocarbons law, which details the rules for private contracts and fines, but lawmakers reserved dozens of articles for further debate before a final vote.
The bill fleshes out a historic overhaul of the state-run energy sector approved late last year and it will pass to the lower house from the senate.
Following a decade of falling oil and gas output, Pena Nieto pushed through a reform in December 2013 to end state oil giant Pemex's 75-year monopoly and allow for production and exploration by private companies.
The reform is the central plank of Pena Nieto's plan to boost growth in Latin America's No. 2 economy, which has lagged behind more dynamic emerging markets.
Senators are set to vote on three more energy bills, including one that opens up the electricity market to private companies.
https://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/ ... 522B_PesosMexico's Pemex 2nd-Qtr Losses Widen to 52.2B Pesos
by Reuters|Friday, July 25, 2014
State-owned oil company Pemex reported a wider second quarter loss hurt by higher sales costs, declining asset values and higher taxes, the company said on Friday.
Losses totaled 52.226 billion pesos ($4.02 billion) for the quarter, led by losses at the company's refining unit, compared to a total loss of 49 billion pesos during the year earlier period.
Revenue during the quarter rose 4.1 percent to 409 billion pesos, however, mainly because of higher domestic sales and exports, compared to revenue of 393 billion pesos during the second quarter last year.
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