[mattduke]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — More than 60 per cent of Mexico's steel production was halted and two major auto plants, including Volkswagen's only manufacturing facility in North America, shut down Tuesday after explosions claimed by a leftist group cut natural gas supplies.

Canadian Press

[DantesPeak]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')exico pipeline bombers threaten new attacks

Frank Jack Daniel and Alistair Bell, Reuters
Published: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 Article tools


* * * * MEXICO CITY - A leftist rebel group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for bomb attacks on Mexican oil and gas pipelines earlier this week, and threatened more assaults against the state-owned oil company.

Blasts at six pipelines on Monday disrupted oil and gas supplies, forced thousands from their homes and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to oil monopoly Pemex and other businesses. No one was injured.

It was the second such attack in two months and the Popular Revolutionary Army, or EPR, rebel group said it planned more. The group accuses the government of secretly abducting two of its guerrilla organizers.

"Our political-military activities will not be stopped until our two abducted or disappeared companions are shown free and alive," the rebels said in a statement sent to a Mexican newspaper. They promised to avoid casualties.

[BrazilianPO]

The numbers from August are out here.

Big drop in production (worst month so far this year), but it was influenced by some days of bad weather. Looks like Mexico is coming into an average of 3.5 Mbpd for 2007, or a 4% decline from 2006. Not as bad as the North Sea, but not good at all.

[nth]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BrazilianPO', 'T')he numbers from August are out here.

Big drop in production (worst month so far this year), but it was influenced by some days of bad weather. Looks like Mexico is coming into an average of 3.5 Mbpd for 2007, or a 4% decline from 2006. Not as bad as the North Sea, but not good at all.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('nth', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BrazilianPO', 'T')he numbers from August are out here.

Big drop in production (worst month so far this year), but it was influenced by some days of bad weather. Looks like Mexico is coming into an average of 3.5 Mbpd for 2007, or a 4% decline from 2006. Not as bad as the North Sea, but not good at all.

[Johnvancouver]

At the rate of 4% decline per year, it takes only 17 years to cut the production to half of the current level. This is bad especially since the demand is still rising.

[BrazilianPO]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('nth', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BrazilianPO', 'T')he numbers from August are out here.

Big drop in production (worst month so far this year), but it was influenced by some days of bad weather. Looks like Mexico is coming into an average of 3.5 Mbpd for 2007, or a 4% decline from 2006. Not as bad as the North Sea, but not good at all.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BrazilianPO', 'T')here is and English version of the monthly report here.

And this version has the September numbers. The production is back up but the general trend is down. The marine extraction is down by 4% from 2006, what suggests that they are offsetting some of Cantarel's losses with new fields.

[DantesPeak]

Ten oil workers were killed, and 26 more are missing, when the the Usumacinta drilling platform collided with a light-production rig set adrift in a Gulf of Mexico storm.

PEMEX shut down three oil export shipping ports but stated overall oil production had not been affected.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')emex Says Storm Kills 10 Workers on Oil Platform; 58 Rescued

By Andres R. Martinez

Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Petroleos Mexicanos, the state-owned oil monopoly, said 10 workers were killed on an offshore oil platform during a storm yesterday in the Gulf of Mexico, and 18 are still at sea in lifeboats or missing.

Rescuers have retrieved 58 of the 86 workers that evacuated from the platform located 46.6 miles (75 kilometers) off the shore from Ciudad del Carmen in Campeche state, said Carlos Ramirez, a spokesman in Mexico City for the company, which is known as Pemex.

Eight Mexican ports on the Gulf were closed to commercial traffic yesterday after the storm produced gusts of 81 miles an hour, said Martin Munoz, of Mexico's meteorological service. The ports, including three used by Pemex to transport oil, will remain shut until at least tomorrow, Munoz said. Smaller ships have been docked at all Mexican ports in the gulf, he said.

[DantesPeak]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')Wed Oct 24, 2007 5:41pm EDT

All 81 workers on the Usumacinta drilling platform jumped into emergency rafts as huge waves knocked the platform into an adjacent rig late on Tuesday, causing crude oil and natural gas pipes to leak. It was feared some had fallen into the sea.

Attempts by rescue crews in eight helicopters and four rescue boats to reach the two stranded life rafts were being thwarted by waves of up to 20 feet (6 meters). A handful of sailors involved in the rescue were missing.

The bad weather shut Mexico's top three oil exporting ports in the crude-rich Gulf of Mexico for a second day, suspending oil shipments to the United States. Port officials saw it as unlikely they would reopen before Thursday.

Pemex said U.S. buyers of its oil should not be hurt as it would reschedule the delayed shipments once the storm passed.

It was not evacuating oil platforms or shutting down production as the worst of the bad weather was over.

[pup55]

Pretty rough.

I guess this illustrates that if you spend a lot of time tryng to drill oil in out-of-the-way places, stuff is going to happen. Storms will sneak up on you before you know it and your crew will be floating in life rafts somewhere.

Heck of a way to make a living.

[DantesPeak]

Yep.



$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')emex said it would reschedule the delayed shipments once the storm passed and that American oil buyers would not be hurt by the accident. The company is the sole supplier of all commercial gasoline stations in Mexico.

Port officials say that it is unlikely they will reopen on Thursday.

[snowhope]

18 thought to have died now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7061308.stm

[DantesPeak]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')exico Coatzacoalcos oil port reopens after storm
25 Oct 2007 13:49:51 GMT
Source: Reuters

MEXICO CITY, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Mexican oil exporting port Coatzacoalcos reopened on Thursday after a storm that had shut the port for two days waned, a port official told Reuters.

"The sea swells have now calmed," said port official Cesar Santos.

A cold front struck the Gulf of Mexico this week, killing 18 Mexican oil workers as they fled a battered offshore rig damaged in the storm. Seven people were still missing as of Wednesday night.

Mexico's top three oil exporting ports -- Coatzacoalcos, Dos Bocas and Cayo Arcas --- in the crude-rich Gulf of Mexico were shut on Tuesday and Wednesday due to bad weather. It was not clear whether Dos Bocas and Cayo Arcas had reopened on Thursday.

Pemex has said U.S. buyers of its oil should not be hurt as it would reschedule the delayed shipments once the storm passed.

[UncoveringTruths]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'L')OS ANGELES, Nov. 19 -- Production of crude oil in Mexico's main oilfields—Cantarell and Ku Maloob Zaap, in the Gulf of Mexico Campeche Sound—is falling due to water and salt seepage into the reservoirs, official documents reveal.

According to documents of state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos, the seepage is causing a reduction in production equivalent to 84,300 b/d of oil. Pemex said the loss of production due to water and salt dates back to 2004, and is a natural result of the maturing of these fields.

"As in all deposits, the problem of water production in mature fields is not something that can be reversed, but rather it is a situation that must be managed to continue producing crude oil, now with a percentage of water," Pemex said.

[UncoveringTruths]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')ov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Petroleos Mexicanos, the state-owned oil monopoly, said daily crude-oil production fell 5.6 percent in October from a year earlier after the company temporarily shut some offshore wells because of bad weather.

Daily output declined to 2.995 million barrels from 3.173 million barrels a year earlier, Mexico City-based Pemex, as the company is known, said today in a statement. In September, Pemex produced 3.16 million barrels a day of oil.

[DantesPeak]

Recent information indicates that this platform was collecting 5,000 bpd, so it looks like that amount is lost until replacement structures can be built.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')emex begins dismantling Usumacinta drilling rig

Eric Watkins
Senior Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3 -- Mexico's Petroleos Mexicanos has begun dismantling a damaged oil rig in the Bay of Campeche off Mexico as heat from near-constant fires has destabilized the structure.

Pemex said engineers successfully removed the Usumacinta oil rig's tower, and the company expressed hope that the action would help workers extinguish the fire that has been fueled by continuing oil and gas leaks since an Oct. 23 accident.

High waves hitting the rig caused the accident, sending a boom crashing into an oil platform's valve assembly and killing some 21 workers.

Pemex said the platform has been spilling about 430 b/d of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, a total of almost 13,000 bbl since the accident.

Mexican subcontractor Perforadora Central owns and operates the rig, which Bethlehem Steel built in 1982 in Singapore.

In earlier reports, a senior company executive said Pemex may close its Usumacinta oil rig and the Kab 121 oil well in the Bay of Campeche due to the continuing oil and gas leak (OGJ Online, Nov. 27, 2007).

[joewp]

I didn't see this story on PO.com, but even if it is here, it still belongs in this thread.


Oil & Gas Journal
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')Mexico oil production decline to increase in 2010

Eric Watkins
Senior Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7 -- Mexico will face difficulties in producing crude oil over the coming 2 years, according to a media report, which claims that Cantarell and Ku-Maloob-Zaap (KMZ) fields will decline simultaneously in 2010.

"As we move toward that scenario," said El Financero newspaper, "Cantarell's decline became more pronounced in 2007, when it stopped producing an average of 304,000 b/d. It declined by 234,000 b/d in 2006 and 101,000 b/d in 2005, the paper reported.

According to the paper, that reduction contributed to a drop of 174,000 b/d in the country's total production in 2007, compared with a decline of 78,000 b/d in 2006 and 50,000 b/d in 2005.

Although KMZ's oil production average increased by 123,400 b/d in 2007, representing a 30.6% increase over 2006, it is not offsetting much of Cantarell's decline because its increase made up for only a third of the decline in Cantarell, El Financero said.

Officials at state-owned Pemex expect KMZ to reach its highest production level in 2010, averaging 800,000 b/d of crude oil. Thereafter, its decline will begin, along with that of Cantarell.

[smiley]

The numbers of january are in.

January 2006 3.810 MBd
January 2007 3.553 MBd
January 2008 3.323 MBd

http://www.pemex.com/files/dcpe/petro/eprohidro_ing.pdf

[eastbay]

Putting this new information into perspective, at this rate, Mexico becomes a net-importer in about 45 months.

Wow.