Industry sources said Dragados Offshore of Spain, US-based McDermott and Mexican-owned Cisca are preparing to battle it out to build the major production platform designed to handle about 200,000 barrels per day of oil.
The PB-Litoral-A platform will be the crown-jewel in a new offshore complex designed to exploit a number of recent discoveries.
Pemex needs to monetise about 1.5 billion barrels of oil it has discovered in the Bay of Campeche shallow water.
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