Monday, August 22, 2011
Dow Jones Newswires
MEXICO CITY
by Laurence Iliff
Mexico's state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said Monday that it successfully carried out production tests at new oil field in the southern Gulf of Mexico.
Pemex said the Kinbe-1 well reached an initial average production of 5,600 barrels of light crude per day. The well took more than a year to drill, and was finished Aug. 9. Kinbe-1 also has reached natural gas production of 9 million cubic feet per day on average, the oil monopoly said.
Pemex said "this new discovery increases the petroleum potential of the zone comprised by the fields Tsimin, Xux and Kab" as part of the company's light-crude marine project. Kinbe-1 was drilled in 22 meters of water.
After six years of steady declines in crude-oil production, Pemex is trying to ramp up output in order to break the slide, but has struggled due to declines at the Cantarell offshore fields that once accounted for more than half of the company's total production. Cantarell's decline has brought Pemex's overall production down to just under 2.6 million barrels a day currently from nearly 3.4 million barrels a day in 2004.
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