据World Energy News网站1月12日墨西哥城报道,墨西哥石油监管机构墨西哥国家油气委员会(CNH)12日投票批准了墨西哥国家石油公司(墨国油)今年晚些时候在墨西哥湾靠近与美国接壤海上边界处钻取两口新的深水井计划。
这两口新的深水井预计生产轻质或超轻质原油。这两口新深水井均位于Perdido褶皱带的延伸部分上,该褶皱带在邻近美国一侧水域已被证明具有高产能力。但是,由于墨国油缺乏专业技术,钻新井将给其带来重大挑战。
墨国油获准钻取的两口新深水井均位于墨西哥塔毛利帕斯省东北海岸以外墨西哥湾基本没有被开发的深水海域,分别是Vasto-1001井和Nobilis-1001井。
Vasto-1001井将钻至7229米的总深度,估计将耗资1.9亿美元,该井据悉拥有大约2.03亿桶油当量的远景资源量,主要是轻质原油。
Nobilis-1001井将被钻至5980米总深度,估计将耗资1.527亿美元,该井据悉拥有大约1.61亿桶油当量的远景资源量,主要是超轻质原油。
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Mexico Regulator Approves Pemex Plan to Drill New Deepwater Wells
World Energy News
January 12, 2016
Mexico City
Mexico's oil regulator voted on Tuesday to approve plans by national oil company Pemex to drill two new deepwater wells later this year near the maritime border with the United States in the Gulf of Mexico.
Both wells are expected to yield light or super light crude, and are within the Mexican extension of the Perdido Fold Belt, which has proved highly productive in adjacent U.S. waters but has represented a major challenge for Pemex due to its lack of specialized expertise.
The National Hydrocarbons Commission, known as the CNH, approved Pemex's request to drill the Vasto-1001 and Nobilis-1 wells, both off the coast of northeastern Tamaulipas state in the country's largely untapped deep waters of the Gulf.
Vasto-1001 will be drilled at a depth of 23,717 feet (7,229 meters), costing an estimated 3.4 billion pesos ($190 million) and believed to hold prospective resources of about 203 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) in mostly light crude.
The nearby Nobilis-1 well will be 19,619 feet (5,980 meters) deep and cost about 2.73 billion pesos ($152.7 million). The deposit the well will explore is believed to hold prospective resources of about 161 million boe in mostly super light crude.