Pemex E&P unit inks pipeline contract for further Cantarell field development

Pemex Exploration & Production Co. has signed a letter of intent to award Global Offshore Mexico S de RL de CV a $100 million contract to install three 20-in. pipelines and nine 12-in. pipelines as part of the EPC-77 project in the Cantarell complex of fields in the Bay of Campeche.

April 13, 2004

By OGJ editors

HOUSTON, Apr. 13 -- Pemex Exploration & Production Co. has signed a letter of intent to award Global Offshore Mexico S de RL de CV a $100 million contract to install three 20-in. pipelines and nine 12-in. pipelines as part of the EPC-77 project in the Cantarell complex of fields in the Bay of Campeche about 80 km off the Yucatan Peninsula (see maps, OGJ, Aug. 27, 2001, p. 54).

The project is slated for completion by first quarter 2005. Global Chairman and CEO William J. Doré, said that the project will utilize the company's Hercules, Shawnee, and Pioneer vessels.

The contractor is a subsidiary of Carlyss, La.-based Global Industries Ltd.