There is green light in the Gulf of Mexico

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There is green light in the Gulf of Mexico
By: Carlos Damian February 13, 2012
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Mexico. – The agreement between Mexico and relative The States to the transborder oilfields of hydrocarbons will allow the sure working and exploration, efficient, equal and environmentally responsible for the deposits of hydrocarbons that could be both along the frontier between countries in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Ministry of Energy (Sener). This instrument will generate the necessary legal certainty for the long term use of the resources that can be in that area, eliminating the legal hole in benefit of both nations, he added.

The undersecretary of Hydrocarbons of the Sener, Mario Gabriel Budebo (MGB), he says that the agreement includes an exchange of punctual information to eradicate uncertainties in the future investments in the event of some discovery in the border fringe that they share both countries in the Gulf of Mexico. Once the new treaty goes into effect, the official estimated that the eventual production in the area could begin in about seven years, although until the moment overwhelming evidence that could assure doesn't exist that there are transborder oilfields. What knows is that in the area of Perdido is a geologic structure that could contain hydrocarbons and that possibly they extend for both sides of the frontier.

Sener indicates that there is future on the continental platform
He also extended in their explanations when pointing out that in case the governments don't come to an agreement in the percentage of the distribution of the raw overdraft, the character of a third independent neutral was included that could solve controversies among both nations whose failure should accept for the two parts. Later on the license’s owners of The States (private producers) and Pemex will achieve an agreement for the "unitization” that is only the exploitation of the oilfield for an operator. The treaty will still have to be ratified by the Senate in Mexico and for most of both cameras legislatives in The States.

MGB also informed that at the present time contacts have begun with Cuba to examine the situation of the extended continental platform beyond the 200 miles for the Oriental Polygon and of the potential transborder oilfields along the marine frontier. That which will allow defining the continental platform of each country and the corresponding territorial waters. Cuba carried out its presentation in May of 2009 and Mexico also presented its report to the UN.

Pemex plans to perforate in the Gulf
Pemex plans to perforate 38 new wells in deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico before 2016, with what would duplicate the quantity of perforations up to now and it would try to arrive to depths of almost 3 kilometers a directive of the company declared. Our nation has little time exploring in deep waters of the Gulf, where PEMEX estimates that there are potential resources for 29 thousand million barrels of equivalent petroleum (the total of the petroleum, the total of the oil and the gas), and 58 percent of the prospective resources of the country. The state monopoly has perforate 16 wells in deep waters and it has three in perforation process. Of those finished, two were producing of raw and seven of natural gas; in two the production was not commercial and five were unproductive.

This year Pemex plans to perforate ultra deeper waters of almost 3 kilometers in the well Maximino-1, that of bigger reach of the several ones programmed for 2012. The National Commission of Hydrocarbons has lifted the alert on the intention of arriving to those depths, alleging Pemex that doesn't have the experience neither the enough knowledge to explore in deep waters. The organism has said that the Mexican oil company should go with more calm in the exploration of deep waters, where the challenges are very different to those that Pemex has faced up to now in earth. Carlos Morales (CM), director of Pemex Exploration and Production, the figures that he gave to Reuters differ of the numbers that surrendered to the organ regulator of the sector, the National Commission of hydrocarbons, about perforating 50 wells in deep waters before 2015.

Pemex plans to work in the sea in deep waters
CM said that “Pemex has come acquiring the necessary experience for that type of operations", “they can be sure all that we know how we are making the things, attached to the regulation". It was announced in past August, the discovery of a new well of raw slight in the location Kinbe-1, to 87 kilometers of the Carmen City, in the southerner state of Campeche, this well is in the same area where the complex is located in the one that are the fields Tsimin, and Xux, in waters of the Gulf.

He is also considered that Kinbe-1 have proven reservations, probable and possible of 150 million barrels. "The program is that these fields begin to take place in 2014". At the end of January, Pemex announced that it checked the existence of raw in an exploratory well in the sea in front to the costs of Veracruz, in the Gulf of Mexico. We are before good oilfields with good production to get ahead. (La Jornada, mundo, p.p. 2-3, February 21, 2012).