Mexico’s top oil & gas projects under development: Coming to grips with main hydrocarbon challenges and obstacles at home and abroad

(offshore-energy.biz) Many factors, including roadblocks, play a role in oil and gas extraction and development around the globe. Some of these are region-specific while others tend to be a global problem. Mexico’s five largest upcoming hydrocarbon projects have not managed to escape these, thus, they are also facing such technical and other issues. The Latin American country’s energy officials have offered a glimpse into the prospects for the exploration and extraction of hydrocarbons not only in the domestic playground but also the international one, under the backdrop of economic, geopolitical, and energy transition woes and opportunities.

The Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) or National Hydrocarbons Commission, which is responsible for regulating Mexico’s hydrocarbons sector, recently provided an overview of technical challenges in strategic projects of hydrocarbon extraction within Mexico’s oil and gas ecosystem.

According to Rafael Guerrero Altamirano, CNH’s Head of the Extraction Unit and its Supervision, the list of key current oil projects consists of Woodside Energy-operated Trion, Pemex-operated Quesqui, Ixachi, Zama, and Lakach, for which Pemex agreed to hand over the reins to Grupo Carso, owned by Carlos Slim, one of Mexico’s billionaire.

Regarding the technical challenges related to the Trion development, run by Pemex and Woodside Energy, Guerrero Altamirano points out that the project lies in a water level of 2,600 meters (m) with a total depth of 4,400 m to the deposits.

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