By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Jan. 22 -- Pemex Exploration & Production, a subsidiary of Mexico's national oil corporation Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), has awarded an engineering services contract to a joint venture of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. unit Uhde Jacobs and Mexican engineering firm Vigen SA for the Ku-Maloob-Zaap (KMZ) fields platform project in the Bay of Campeche off Mexico.
The contract includes engineering oversight for 18 new offshore platforms that Pemex will build for the KMZ field complex during the next 5 years at a cost of more than $2.5 billion.
"The project supports Mexico's aggressive export program," Jacobs said, by improving its oil production capability to 800,000 b/d and gas production capability by 600 MMscfd for the fields.
