http://www.eanpinfo.com/templet/default/ShowArticle.jsp?id=122707墨西哥国家石油公司Pemex表示，，它会很快公布北部地区22个油田的二次招标规则，这些油田可以按地区分为6个组：Altamira, Arenque, Atun, Panuco, San Andre和Tierra Blanca地区。据墨西哥国家石油公司，这六个地区有很高的开发潜力，虽然目前它们处于边际效益边缘，但都有剩余储量和潜在资源量，需要新技术来提高产量，它预计在六个地区的石油产量从目前的每天12000桶上升到合同中规定的每天70,000桶水平。
Mexico's state-owned oil company PEMEX said Friday that it will soon publish the rules for its second tender for mature fields using integrated contracts that allow private companies to run their own operations and receive a flat fee for each barrel of oil produced, along with incentives for higher levels of production.
PEMEX said its next tender under the incentive-based contracts will be for 22 fields in its northern production zone, which are grouped into six areas: Altamira, Arenque, Atun, Panuco, San Andre and Tierra Blanca. PEMEX said two of the areas, Arenque and Atun, are expected to draw particular interest because they are offshore. Most of Mexico's oil is produced offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.
The six areas to be tendered have a high potential for development, PEMEX said, because production of oil and gas there currently is marginal, all have remaining reserves and prospective additional resources, and because new technologies are needed to elevate production. The oil monopoly said that it expects oil production at the six areas to rise to 70,000 barrels a day under the contracts from the current level of 12,000 barrels a day.
PEMEX said the tender rules should be published by the end of this year, and expects to award the contracts in May of next year.
The use of integrated contracts was made possible under oil-sector reforms passed in 2008. The reforms allow the state company to make its service contracts more flexible, with higher payments for increased performance. The Mexican Constitution bans oil and gas concessions, so private contractors can only produce oil or gas for PEMEX.
The first integrated contracts were awarded in August for six mature fields in three groupings in Pemex's southern zone. The U.K. firm Petrofac Facilities Management Limited won two of the three tenders to exploit four fields in the Santuario and Magallanes areas. The third tender was initially give to a Mexican company, but after it did not meet all requirements, the contract went to the local branch of Schlumberger.
PEMEX expects the southern tender will allow oil production in those areas to rise from about 15,000 barrels a day to 55,000 barrels a day.
PEMEX has said it expects to eventually use the integrated contracts for drilling in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, where PEMEX has no production. PEMEX is struggling with six years of straight declines in oil production to just under 2.6 million barrels a day currently from nearly 3.4 million barrels a day in 2004.
