Pemex contract soon for huge heavy-lift package

Complex tenders: Juan Jose Suarez Coppel, Director General of Pemex

Pemex

By Tom Darin Liskey Houston

 17 May 2012 22:59 GMT

Pemex is expected soon to award the contract for one of Mexico’s largest and potentially most complex heavy-lift package tenders ever.

The state-run company has been reviewing bids since late April from local and international heavy lift players for the transportation and installation of six ­different platforms to be located in its offshore sector.

Companies that bid on the package include Mexico’s Protexa, Grupo R’s CAMSA and Dragados Offshore.

These companies are understood to have made rival bids for the contract, either on their own or in association with other companies.

It was not clear if global heavy-lift players such as Technip’s ­Global Industries or Saipem bid for the job.

Bids for the package reportedly range…

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