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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.

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.

Pemex Unveils Petroleum Statistics for May
The production of crude oil during the month of May averaged 2,000,000 542,000 barrels per day, two thousand barrels more than the volume in the previous month. This is provided in the Petroleum Statistics published today.

ICA Fluor to Construct Pemex Offshore Production Platform in Gulf of Mexico
ICA Fluor, the industrial construction joint venture of Empresas ICA, S.A. B de C.V. (BMV and NYSE: ICA) and Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR), announced the signing of a contract with Pemex Exploration and Production for the construction of an offshore production platform for the Ku-Maloob-Zaap field in the Gulf of Mexico with a total contract value of $95 million. Fluor’s share of the contract, $47.5 million, will be booked in the second quarter.

McDermott Awarded Pemex Drilling Platform in Bay of Campeche
McDermott International, Inc. (NYSE: MDR) (“McDermott”) announced today that one of its subsidiaries has been awarded a contract for the new Ayatsil-B drilling platform for PEMEX Exploracion y Produccion in the Bay of Campeche Ayatsil field. The value of this award will be included in McDermott's second quarter 2012 backlog.

Keppel AmFELS secures repeat jackup order from Mexico worth US$205 million
Keppel AmFELS LLC, a US wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), has won a contract from Mexico's Perforadora Central SA de CV (Perforadora Central) to build a repeat jackup rig worth US$205 million.