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

Dragados gets job to build second compression platform for Pemex

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.

21 February 2013 23:59 GMT Updated 21 February 2013 23:59 GMT

By Tom Darin Liskey Houston

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.

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Dragados gets job to build second compression platform for Pemex