Dragados gets job to build second compression platform for Pemex

epa01155999 In this file picture provided by Mexico's national oil company Pemex and dated 02 March 2007 an offshore oil installation is seen in the gulf of Mexico near the coast of Campeche, Mexico. At least 18 oil workers were killed when a drilling platform hit an oil rig, spilling gas and oil into the Gulf of Mexico, Pemex informed 24 October 2007. Another seven workers are still missing. EPA/ALFREDO GUERRERO HO EDITORIAL USE ONLY

New development: a Pemex offshore oil installation in the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Campeche, Mexico.

ALFREDO GUERRERO HO

By Tom Darin Liskey Houston

 21 February 2013 23:59 GMT

Mexico’s Pemex is understood to have awarded Dragados of Spain a contract worth about $419 million to build a second offshore compression platform for a new hydrocarbon processing centre in the Bay of Campeche where the state-run oil giant is trying to monetise recent discoveries.

This is the second contract that Dragados has won to build a compression platform for Pemex’s new Litoral processing centre.

Weighing in at about 13,000 tonnes, the CB Litoral A compression platform is smaller than the 15,000-tonnes CA Litoral A platform Dragados will build.

The larger compression unit is being built “with flexibility” to comply with new operating conditions in the yet-to-be-installed Litoral processing centre.

The Spanish company beat rival offers from McDermott, Mexican-owned Cisca and ICA Fluor Daniel-Industria del Hierro to build the CB Litoral A compression platform.

According to sources, bids ranged between…

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