Mexico's Luna discoveries are more than moonshine

Journal Article · Fri May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1987 · World Oil; (United States)

OSTI ID:6775266

Stewart-Gordon, T J; Baker, G T

Just when it seemed that Mexico's petroleum reserves may have been overstated, the state oil company opened a new province. Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) geologists think the Luna area of Tabasco State and the Gulf of Mexico could add the condensate and gas equivalent of 20 billion bbl of light oil to Mexico's proven reserves. If true, this would be the largest discovery in Mexico since the Campeche Sound fields in 1976. To date, the new province stretches about 50 miles between the Caribbean coastal towns of Frontera and Puerto Ceiba in Tabasco State, and extends some 31 miles offshore (see map). Since the early 1970s, Pemex geologists have postulated that the entire Yucatan platform will prove productive. Luna finds reduce the distance between Campeche fields and onshore production to 93 miles. The Luna area is ideally suited for rapid development - it is about 40 miles northeast of Villahermosa, Tabasco, and within 60 miles of the export terminal at Dos Bocas near the border between Tabasco and Vera Cruz states. It is also less than 50 miles from the Cactus gas-processing and petrochemical plants in Chiapas State, which means that gas can be put into the country's trunk line that extends to the U.S. grid at Reynosa.

• Research Organization: Stewart-Gordon Associates, Tewksbury, MA
• OSTI ID: 6775266
• Journal Information: World Oil; (United States), Journal Name: World Oil; (United States) Vol. 204:5; ISSN WOOIA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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