石油设备网讯 据全球能源新闻网2019年6月23日休斯顿报道，墨西哥国家石油公司（墨国油/Pemex）的一名高级官员日前表示，墨国油现在将专注于浅水项目和陆上远景区，暂时避免投资其深水财富，这是因为这家境况不佳的墨西哥国有石油巨头时下正在寻求扭转其原油产量连续14年下滑的局面。
墨国油首席财务官阿尔贝托·委拉斯凯兹近日在Leon市举行的一次会议上概述了墨国油将采取的策略。他强调，墨国油现在不打算投资成本高昂、技术复杂的墨西哥湾深水项目，而是将把勘探和生产预算重点放在本国浅水项目和陆上远景区潜力上。
委拉斯凯兹对与会者说：“我们不会在这类开发项目上投资。”他指的是深水项目。
墨国油目前的原油产量绝大多数来自墨西哥湾南部边缘的浅水区，远离韦拉克鲁斯州、坎佩切州和塔巴斯科州海岸。
尽管墨国油已在墨西哥湾墨西哥一侧海域钻井以及发现了石油并与澳大利亚必和必拓在其中一个此类项目中建立了合资伙伴关系，但墨国油迄今尚未在那里开采任何石油或天然气。
墨国油目前的平均原油日产量略低于170万桶，比2004年约340万桶的日产量峰值下降了近一半。墨西哥总统奥夫拉多尔承诺，到2024年其任期结束时将把墨国油原油日产量提高至250万桶。
墨国油今年的勘探和生产预算大约为142亿美元。
李峻 编译自 全球能源新闻
原文如下：
Pemex Steering Clear of Deepwater
Petroleos Mexicanos will focus on shallow water projects and onshore plays, and avoid investing in its deepwater riches for now, as the ailing Mexican state-run oil company seeks to turn around a 14-year slide in crude production, a top official said on Thursday.
Chief Financial Officer Alberto Velazquez outlined the approach the state-owned oil company known as Pemex will take at a conference in the colonial city of Leon on Thursday.
He emphasized that Pemex has no plans to invest in costly and technologically complex deepwater projects in the Gulf of Mexico, but will instead focus its exploration and production budget on the country's shallow water and onshore potential.
"We are not going to invest in those types of developments," said Velazquez, referring to deepwater projects.
The vast majority of Pemex's current production comes from shallow water areas clustered around the southern rim of the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of the states of Veracruz, Campeche and Tabasco.
While the company has drilled wells and made discoveries in Mexican territorial waters in the deepwater Gulf, and has a joint venture partnership in one such project with Australia's BHP Billiton, it has yet to produce any oil or gas there.
Pemex's current crude production averages just under 1.7 million barrels per day (bpd), down nearly a half from peak output of about 3.4 million bpd in 2004.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has pledged to raise Pemex output to 2.5 million bpd by the end of his term in 2024.
Pemex's exploration and production budget this year is around $14.2 billion.
