Pemex lets contract for two light platforms

June 1, 2006
Fluor Corp. reported that ICA Fluor, its joint venture with Empresas ICA Sociedad Controladora, has received a $24 million contract from Pemex Exploration & Production for the fabrication of two lightweight offshore platforms, May D and Sinan NE, to be installed off Mexico.

Peter Howard Wertheim
OGJ Correspondent

RIO DE JANEIRO, June 1 -- Fluor Corp. reported that ICA Fluor, its joint venture with Empresas ICA Sociedad Controladora, has received a $24 million contract from Pemex Exploration & Production for the fabrication of two lightweight offshore platforms, May D and Sinan NE, to be installed off Mexico.

ICA Fluor subsidiary Industria del Hierro will perform engineering, procurement, construction, load-out, and seabed fastening. Completion is scheduled for November.

The platforms, with a total weight of about 1,600 tons, will be installed in Pemex's southwest region of the Gulf of Mexico.