Tag: Mexico

FoundOcean and Ranger Offshore signed a strategic agreement in September, formalising the strong relationship between the two oil and gas sector specialists. Combining complementary resources and a wealth of industry expertise, the partnership will offer clients a competitive, design-to-installation solution for a range of projects.

DENSO Corp. announced that DENSO MEXICO (DNMX) would expand its plant in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, to increase production of transmission components in the North American region. The expansion represents an investment of USD 53.

Fluor Corporation’s ICA Fluor industrial engineering-construction joint venture with Empresas ICA signed a contract with Petroquimica Mexicana de Vinilo (PMV), a joint venture between Mexichem, the Mexican petrochemical company, and Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned oil and gas company, for the revamp of the vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) plant located within the Pajaritos petrochemical complex, near Veracruz.

The construction of a natural gas pipeline from southern Texas to central Mexico for state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, will allow gas imports from the U.S.

  Mexico is due to import a total 100Mf3/d (2.83Mm3/d) LNG via the Manzanillo and Altamira terminals for approximately one year to guarantee natural gas supply to the country, Alejandro Martínez Sibaja, director of state oil company Pemex's gas subsidiary PGPB said at the BNamericas Mexico Energy Summit in Mexico City.

Petrofac’s Engineering & Consulting Services business (ECS), in partnership with Doris Engineering of Houston (Doris), has been awarded a project management contract by Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) for specialised technical assistance and supervision for the construction, installation, commissioning, testing and start-up of deep-water subsea wells and infrastructure for the Lakach project.

FoundOcean has completed the installation and grouting for a clamp repair to an 18in pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico.

Brazil’s Braskem SA and Mexico-based Grupo Idesa’s joint venture Grupo Idesa has received a USD$700 million line of credit approval by the Brazilian National Economic and Social Development Bank.

Chemicals maker, Mexichem SAB has bought over 15 companies since 2007, is seeking to develop Mexico’s first shale gas projects, if the country sells licenses that would bypass a monopoly on fossil fuels.

      Temporary power solution provider, APR Energy PLC has been awarded a 100 megawatt contract from Tractebel Energia de Monterrey, S.