Meteoric history of Cantarell Field continues for Pemex

摘要

In July 2014, Pemex agreed to spend $6 billion on the Akal Field to stabilize production and extend the field's historic run. In 1972 a fisherman named Rudesindo Cantarell reported an oil slick that was flowing from a seep in the Bay of Campeche in the Gulf of Mexico about 100 km (60 miles) off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. From that slick the first field in the Cantarell complex was discovered in 1976, and production began from the fields in 1979. Cantarell was the second-highest-producing field (2.14 MMbbl/d in 2004) in the world behind the Ghawar Field in Saudi Arabia. That one discovery was a game changer for Mexico, shifting the country from an importer of crude oil to an exporter.