Mexico continues at full throttle and launches the 4th stage of its Round One, known officially as ‘CNH-R01-L04/2015’. This time the available blocks (10) are located in deep waters, 6 blocks are in the ‘Cuenca Salina’ (Salt Basin) in the southern Mexican Gulf, whereas the remaining 4 blocks are upper-north, in the area known as ‘Cinturón Plegado Perdido’ (Lost Fold Belt).
See a preview of the blocks being offered in this 4th stage in our Interactive Licensing Round Map.
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Ronda 1. Deep Waters’ blocks location.
So far, the other three previous licensing processes of the Ronda 1 have been awarded and they can be summarized as follows (more information at http://ronda1.gob.mx/):
Stage 1, Shallow Waters, Exploration. Round Name CNH-R01-L01/2014
Awarded Block/s |
Awarded Tender/s |
2 |
“Sierra Oil & Gas S. de R.L. de C.V., Talos Energy LLC y Premier Oil PLC.” |
7 |
Stage 2, Shallow Waters, Production Sharing. Round Name CNH-R01-L02/2015
Awarded Block/s |
Awarded Tender/s |
Pokoch |
“Fieldwood Energy LLC, en Consorcio con Petrobal S.A.P.I de C.V.” |
Amoca |
“ENI International” |
Miztón |
Tecoalli |
Ichalkil |
“Fieldwood Energy LLC, en Consorcio con Petrobal S.A.P.I de C.V.” |
Hokchi |
“Pan American Energy LLC en Consorcio con E&P Hidrocarburos y Servicios, S.A. de C.V.” |
Stage 3, Terrestrial, Extraction. Round Name CNH-R01-L03/2015
Awarded Block/s |
Awarded Tender/s |
MOLOACÁN. |
“Canamex Dutch B.V. en consorcio con Perfolat de México, S.A. de C.V. y American Oil Tools S. de R.L. de C.V.” |
FORTUNA NACIONAL |
“Compañía Petrolera Perseus, S.A. de C.V.” |
TAJÓN |
CALIBRADOR |
“Consorcio Manufacturero Mexicano, S.A. de C.V.” |
MAREÓGRAFO |
DUNA |
“Construcciones y Servicios Industriales Globales, S.A. de C.V.” |
CATEDRAL |
“Diavaz Offshore, S.A.P.I. de C.V.” |
BARCODÓN |
PASO DE ORO |
“Geo Estratos, S.A. de C.V. en consorcio con Geo Estratos Mxoil Exploración y Producción, S.A.P.I. de C.V.” |
TECOLUTLA |
LA LAJA |
PONTÓN |
MAYACASTE |
“Grupo Diarqco, S.A. de C.V.” |
CALICANTO |
SECADERO |
“Grupo R Exploración y Producción, S.A. de C.V. en consorcio con Constructora y Arrendadora México, S.A. de C.V.” |
MALVA |
“Renaissance Renaissance Oil Corp S.A. de C.V.Oil Corp S.A. de C.V.” |
TOPÉN |
MUNDO NUEVO |
PARAISO |
“Roma Energy Holdings, LLC en consorcio con Tubular Technology, S.A. de C.V. y Gx Geoscience Corporation, S. de R.L. de C.V.” |
SAN BERNARDO |
“Sarreal, S.A. de C.V.” |
CUICHAPA PONIENTE |
“Servicios de Extracción Petrolera Lifting de México, S.A. de C.V.” |
BENAVIDES-PRIMAVERA |
“Sistemas Integrales de Compresión, S.A. de C.V. en consorcio con Nuvoil, S.A. de C.V. y Constructora Marusa, S.A. de C.V.” |
PEÑA BLANCA |
“Strata Campos Maduros, S.A.P.I. de C.V.” |
RICOS |
CARRETAS |
Stage 4, Exploration, Deep Waters. Round Name CNH-R01-L04/2015
Awarded Block/s |
Awarded Tender/s |
Cuenca Salina 01 |
Ongoing process. Bid closes July 2016 |
Cuenca Salina 02 |
Cuenca Salina 03 |
Cuenca Salina 04 |
Cuenca Salina 05 |
Cuenca Salina 06 |
Cinturón Plegado Perdido 01 |
Cinturón Plegado Perdido 02 |
Cinturón Plegado Perdido 03 |
Cinturón Plegado Perdido 04 |
To help companies evaluating an entry into Mexico, Lynx is offering a Mexico GIS Dataset as an ArcGIS Desktop project, which provides a number of important G&G layers to set the framework for closer analysis of each of the open block areas. The slideshow below gives a preview of some of the layers included in the project.
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Lynx Mexico GIS – regional layers include Round One blocks and petroleum provinces, bathymetry, 1:1M digital geology, free-air gravity and aeromagnetic anomaly grids for the entire country
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Lynx Mexico GIS – detailed aeromagnetic anomaly grids covering onshore blocks
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Lynx Mexico GIS – structural framework, Salt Basin
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Lynx Mexico GIS – field structure map example
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Lynx Mexico GIS – digital geology and offshore free-air gravity
Lynx is also available to help companies with the task of with data integration and analogue-to-digital reconstruction (seismic and well log vectorization) work as might be encountered during this bid round.
Please contact us for further details