Brazil鈥檚 National Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Biofuels agency (ANP) expanded on its approval of the country鈥檚 13th bid round, with the announcement of more than 22 of 39 applications from international oil and gas companies. Magda Chambriard鈥
Brazil鈥檚 National Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Biofuels agency (ANP) has announced the first 12 companies pre-approved for the country鈥檚 upcoming 13th bid round to be held on 7 October. The pre-approvals went to familiar companies such as supermajor Shell and France鈥檚 GDF Suez鈥
ION Geophysical Corp. announced the availability of fast-track pre-stack time migrated (PSTM) data from the first phase of its MexicoSPAN program. Currently being acquired, phase one encompasses more than 22,000km of deep-imaged two-dimensional (2D) seismic data鈥
Dolphin Geophysical has commenced the East Campeche 2D long offset multi-client survey in Mexico, utilizing the M/V Artemis Arctic. The licensed approved 19,597 line-km survey is well positioned towards the recent Mexican announced five-year鈥
Mexico's Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) authorized permits for Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) to acquire about 88,000sq km of 3D electromagnetic (EM) multi-client data over a five-year period off Southern Mexico. SENER鈥檚鈥
Mexico鈥檚 National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) opened the first public tender process early this morning (15 July) in the country's historic and disappointing Round One that offered Mexico's upstream opportunities to international companies for the first time in decades鈥
Mexico鈥檚 national oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) is joining a list of international oil and gas companies by opting out of Mexico鈥檚 historic Round One. Image from PEMEX. At an event in Mexico City鈥
Mexico鈥檚 Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) revealed that four companies have opted to withdraw from the country鈥檚 historic Round One in the southern Gulf of Mexico, according to a Reuters report. Image from Pemex鈥
ION Geophysical has launched the first phase of MexicoSPAN, encompassing more than 22,000 km of deep-imaged 2D seismic data. Combined with ION鈥檚 YucatanSPAN, GulfSPAN and FloridaSPAN programs, MexicoSPAN will deliver complete, basin-wide regional view of the Gulf of Mexico鈥
A memorandum of understanding (MOU) has been executed for a cooperation agreement between Spectrum, PGS and Schlumberger in Mexico. The collaboration will acquire 80,000-100,000km of modern, long-offset 2D data encompassing all the major hydrocarbon provinces offshore Mexico鈥
Spectrum announced that their vessel has arrived in Mexico and started the acquisition of their Gulf of Mexico 2D campaign, in collaboration with Schlumberger. The first phase of the acquisition program Mexico Campeche-Yucatan 2D Regional鈥
Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) discovered four new shallow water fields offshore Mexico with the potential to produce at least 200,000 b/d of crude oil and 170 Bcf/d of gas. Map of shallow water discoveries off Campeche and Tabasco鈥
Supermajors Chevron and ExxonMobil were two of 26 companies, both privately and in consortia, that have earned the right to submit bids for Mexico鈥檚 Round 1 to be held on 15 July, the country鈥檚 National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) announced on 25 May鈥
India鈥檚 petroleum minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan led a delegation to Mexico and Colombia this week to meet with officials in each country in hopes of transforming the relationship among the three countries from 鈥渂uyer-seller鈥 to an 鈥渆nergy partnership鈥
For the first time in decades, Mexico鈥檚 upstream business is accessible to foreign companies. A panel of experts discussed the implications at this week's CERAWeek conference in Houston and found that, with three bidding rounds planned and data rooms open for scrutinizing鈥
