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Fire at Gas Receiver Center on Reynosa-Monterrey highway
Today at 10:45 am showed a fire in the receiving of Gas and Condensates of Pemex Exploration and Production located at kilometer 19 of the Reynosa-Monterrey highway. In this installation the gas comes from the region of Burgos and the product is delivered to Pemex Gas and Basic Petrochemicals.

Pemex chooses Bechtel for refinery technology
Mexico's state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said Friday it had signed a contract with Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions Inc., or BHTS, for technical assistance and the licensing of refinery technologies for a new refinery Pemex is building in the central Mexican city of Tula, Hidalgo.

Geophysical & Geotechnical contract awards Mexico
Fugro (Mexico) in conjunction with long-time associates, Constructora Subacuatica Diavaz, S.A. de C.V., has been awarded a large offshore multi-site high resolution geophysical and geotechnical survey by Mexico's national oil company PEMEX. Overall value of the contracts is estimated to be approximately EUR 50 million. Activity is scheduled to start late September 2012 and will continue through to August 2013.

Fire is extinguished in a vent line of Madero Refinery
Is extinguished fire in a vent line of Madero Refinery Today, at 15:30 pm, a fire was raised in the vent line from the battery plant to head hydrodesulphurizer general venting Madero Refinery. The fire was completely extinguished at 16:30. Unfortunately there were four injured workers who are being treated at the Regional Hospital in Ciudad Madero Pemex: Faustino Reyna Lara, 46 years old, whose health condition is reported as serious , Pedro de Leon Martinez, 42 years old, Angel Perez Hernandez, 38 years old and Sergio Lara Alberto Reyna, 41 years old. The accident occurred when performing installation work of a board 30 inches blind diameter vent line. should be noted that this incident caused damage to plants in the refinery process, which continue to operate normally.

President Calderón announced the first oil discovery in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico
The President, Felipe Calderon, announced the first oil discovery in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, confirmed the presence of light oil reservoirs in the province of the Perdido fold belt.

Petrofac Wins Arenque Contract, Offshore Mexico
Petrofac has confirmed today that Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has declared that it is the selected bidder for the integrated production service contract to develop the Arenque contract area, offshore Mexico.

Controlled fire in a plant of the Madero Refinery
Specialized staff Refinery Francisco I. Madero, controlled a fire that was raised at 23:15 hours in a boiler plant hydrodesulphurizer U-300 in that workplace. It should be noted that no injuries. Petroleos Mexicanos perform root cause analysis of this incident.

PEMEX confirms new deepwater gas province
PEMEX confirmed the oil potential of the province of Catemaco Fold Belt after the Kunah-1, drilled by the semisubmersible rig "Centennial" in a water depth of two thousand 157 meters, was constituted as the well with higher productivity in waters deep.

Pemex Leadership And Halliburton Technology Set New Paradigm For Development Of Chicontepec Basin
Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) technology and PEMEX leadership and experience have had extraordinary success in Mexico’s Chicontepec Basin. In this unconventional field, characterized as one of the most complex reservoirs in the world, the average well produces 40 barrels of oil per day (BOPD) with a maximum cumulative production of only 40,000 barrels of oil over its productive life (30 years). With integrated solution services from Halliburton and an innovative approach by PEMEX to implement field labs, new wells in the Chicontepec Basin are now yielding record-breaking results.

Petrofac and Schlumberger Selected Bidder by PEMEX
Following the announcement by Petróleos Mexicanos (‘PEMEX’), Petrofac confirms that, together with its partner Schlumberger, it has been declared the selected bidder on the Pánuco integrated production service contract in Mexico. The contract, which runs for 30 years, is expected to be signed in late August 2012 and field operations are expected to start around the beginning of 2013.