Pemex reactivates underutilized infrastructure and saves millions of dollars

As part of its exploration and production strategy, Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) rrehabilitates and uses infrastructure that was paralyzed or underused, in order to be more profitable and achieve its six-year goals, said Octavio Romero Oropeza, the company’s chief executive. “It is part of PEMEX’s policy to reuse everything we have, all the infrastructure, machinery, equipment, many of which have been abandoned, to make our developments more profitable,” the company manager said.

Pemex has reused various materials such as batteries, pears, macro pears, among others

In the context of the above, the oil company reused batteries, pears, macropears, among others. An example is the batteries of Jujo and Tecominoacán, in Tabasco, which, given the increase in production they contribute to the processing of crude oil. “Until before this government, these batteries were practically useless. The amount of crude oil they processed was minimal, and with the discovery of Quesqui, we are reusing the infrastructure that, if we didn’t have it, neither Jujo nor Tecominoacán would have had to make an investment of around 1.2 billion dollars,” underlined Romero Oropeza.

Another is the Cárdenas Norte separation battery which allowed to manage the production of deep Tupilcowhile the Perdiz Battery assists in the production management of the Ixachi field. The manager indicated that not only did this work, but they also moved equipment from other facilities which were no longer used, and which have made it possible to optimize production since lead times have been shortened and costs have been reduced. Furthermore, in the context ofThis policy of reusing obsolete infrastructure, machinery and equipment to make development profitablethey will reuse the pear located in Jalpa de Méndez, Tabasco, to develop the Tlaktok well, which has a 25% chance of success and is part of the early production strategy.

The director explained what I sayThe installation will add 20 meters to the bottom and 10 meters laterally to start drilling the well, which has a potential resource of 18 to 20 million barrels of crude oil equivalent. In addition, according to PEMEX’s business plan, in order to This 2023 the rehabilitation of the auxiliary services infrastructure is planned in the petrochemical complexes (CPQ) of La Cangrejera and Morelos. Since 2019, the state-owned producing company has considered adapting and modernizing the production infrastructure and four years later, it has managed to optimize exploration and production costs, while improving its operational efficiency.