Pemex sees Trion first oil in 2023

Pemex has set a target date of 2023 for first production from Trion, the pioneer deep-water discovery off Mexico set to be developed under its first-ever joint venture alongside Australia's BHP Billiton.

Left to right: Mexican Energy Minister Pedro Joaquin Codwell; Timothy Joseph Callahan, a representative of BHP Billiton Petroleo Operaciones de Mexico; Pemex oil company president Jose Antonio Gonzalez; and the president of the National Hydrocarbons Commission, Juan Carlos Zepeda, pose for photographers at the Centro Banamex, where BHP won the auction for the Trion oilfield with an investment of 624 million dollars, in Mexico City on December 5, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / ALFREDO ESTRELLA
Left to right: Mexican Energy Minister Pedro Joaquin Codwell; Timothy Joseph Callahan, a representative of BHP Billiton Petroleo Operaciones de Mexico; Pemex oil company president Jose Antonio Gonzalez; and the president of the National Hydrocarbons Commission, Juan Carlos Zepeda, pose for photographers at the Centro Banamex, where BHP won the auction for the Trion oilfield with an investment of 624 million dollars, in Mexico City on December 5, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / ALFREDO ESTRELLA
Published 27 February 2017, 19:45Updated 27 February 2017, 19:45