Shell gains approval for Mexico drilling plans

摘要

SHELL has won approval from Mexico regulators for an earlier schedule to drill a potential well on one of its deep-water blocks, with the company now eyeing this year for the work originally envisaged for 2022. The Anglo-Dutch supermajor also added another prospect to its menu of drilling options for the tract in the southern part of the Perdido foldbelt, where it has not committed to drill a well but has penciled in the optional probe for the second quarter of this year. The plans were discussed and approved at a meeting of the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH), which has begun meeting again remotely after a month-long pause in operations due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Shell prospect is in Block 3, won during Round 2.4 in 2018, where it is partnered by Qatar Petroleum.