石油设备网讯 据离岸工程6月17日消息称，墨西哥石油监管机构上周四批准了荷兰皇家壳牌运营的四个深水地区的勘探计划。本周早些时候，该公司批准了另外五个深水地区的勘探计划，承诺这家石油巨头将投资至少7.91亿美元。
该计划规定，这家英荷合资公司可以在这四个区块投资至多10.6亿美元，主要用于钻探至少六口新井。
其中一个区块位于Perdido Fold盆地，该盆地横跨墨西哥湾的美墨海上边界，而另外三个区块位于更南的萨利纳盆地。
周二，被称为国家碳氢化合物委员会（CNH）的监管机构批准了壳牌在同一两个盆地的另外五个深水区进行勘探的计划，其中包括至少3.97亿美元和13.16亿美元的投资承诺。
总而言之，壳牌在未来四年可能在九个深水区投资24亿美元，并将在这些项目中钻探至少13口井。
CNH专员Sergio Pimentel表示，预计这些区块最早要到2026年才能开始生产石油和天然气。
壳牌于2018年初在CNH的拍卖会上赢得了9个深水区块的勘探和生产权。
曹海斌 摘译自 离岸工程
原文如下：
Shell to Invest up to $2.4 Bln in Mexican Deepwater
Mexico's oil regulator on Thursday approved exploration plans for four deepwater areas operated by Royal Dutch Shell, after it gave the green light to five others earlier this week, committing the oil major to invest at least $791 million.
The plans stipulate that the Anglo-Dutch company could invest up to $1.06 billion in the four blocks, mostly dedicated to drilling at least six new wells.
One of the blocks is in the Perdido Fold Basin, which straddles the U.S.-Mexico maritime border in the Gulf of Mexico, while the other three are further south in the Salina Basin.
On Tuesday, the regulator, known as the National Hydrocarbons Commission, or CNH, approved Shell exploration plans for five other deepwater areas in the same two basins which included investment commitments of at least $397 million and as much as $1.316 billion.
Taken together, Shell could invest up to $2.4 billion in the nine deepwater areas over the next four years and will drill at least 13 wells in the projects.
The blocks are not expected to begin producing oil and gas until 2026 at the earliest, said CNH Commissioner Sergio Pimentel.
Shell won exploration and production rights to the nine deepwater blocks at an auction run by the CNH in early 2018.
