Cantarell Oil Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: Pemex
- Country: Mexico
- Location: 80 kilometres (50 mi) offshore in the Bay of Campeche
- Production start: 1979
- Partners:
- Type: Oil
- Estimated Reserves:
- Production Volume: 2.21 mbpd at peak in 2003
Description
- One of the World's largest oil fields, it is comprised of four major fields: Akal, Nohoch, Chac and Kutz
- Another great virtue of Cantarell has been its relatively low production cost per barrel
- The FSO Ta'Kuntah is designed to receive a throughput of 800,000 bopd and to perform both tandem and side-by-side offloadings, the only facility in the world designed to conduct this operation simultaneously
Contractors
- **FMC Technologies:** 10 shallow water trees, including umbilicals and surface control systems
- **Dragados Off-Shore:**
- Turn-key contract to design, supply and install a gas compression platform
- Engineering, acquisitions, construction, assembly and installation of a 1,100 ton platform with 1,330 ton living-quarters module and bridge connecting it to PEMEX's Akal-G production platform
- Gas processing and compression platform
- **Modec:** Supply and operation of FSO Ta'Kuntah
- **Sofec:** FSO External Turret
- **Fluor:** Procurement, construction, testing and load out of two wellhead recovery structures
- **Saipem:** EPC - 78B (AKAL-L) - production platform, flare and bridge structures
- **Heerema Marine Contractors:** Cantarell EPC-1 - 5 Jackets
- **Seaway Heavy Lifting:** Inst. - 4 platforms for Cantarell AKAL-GC Project
History
- 1972 -A fisherman, Rudesindo Cantarell, discovered an oil slick that flowed from the deep sea in the Gulf of Mexico
- 1998 - Dragados Off-Shore awarded contract for gas compression platform
- 2001 - Dragados Off-Shore awarded contracts for 3 platforms
- 2003 - Cantarell production peaked by averaging 2.21 million barrels
- 2004 - Ex-Im Bank approved a $287.3 million long-term loan guarantee to support development of Cantarell
- 2004 - Installation works of the accommodation module IPC 39
- 2005 - FSO Ta'Kuntah achieved the 500 millionth barrel
- 2007 - FMC Technologies awarded contract to Supply Subsea Systems
- 2008 - FSO Ta'Kuntah hits One Billion Barrels
- 2009 - Fluor awarded contract for two lightweight offshore platforms
Geology
- The reservoirs are formed from carbonate breccia of Upper Cretaceous age
Links
- Cantarell, Pemex
- Saipem Fixed Offshore Production Facilities Project References
- Sofec FPSO References
- Seaway Heavy Lifting Oil And Gas References
- International Protective Coatings Fixed Platform References
- Dragados Offshore, Contract in Mexico
- Grupo Dragados to build an off-shore platform for the Mexican oil company PEMEX
- Grupo Dragados will build an offshore platform for Pemex for 34,600 million pesetas
- Installation of IPC 39 Project
- EX-IM Bank Supports $338 Million Export Of Oil Equipment, Services From 50 U.S. Companies To Mexico
- $1 Billion Ex-Im Bank Financing Will Support Mexican Oil and Gas Exploration and Development Projects
- FMC Technologies to Supply Subsea Systems for Pemex's Cantarell Project in the Gulf of Mexico
- First Gulf of Mexico FSO Exports 500 Millionth Barrel of Oil
- MODEC FSO hits One Billion Barrel offloading mark and 10 years of continuous operations
- Sea Trucks Group gets first contract award in Mexico
- ICA Fluor Wins Offshore Platform Project