MEXICO CITY, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- Mexican state-run energy company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) will soon resume production of the 600,000 barrels a day of crude oil suspended due to last week's accident, company officials said at a conference Monday.
Carlos Morales, the director of Pemex Exploration and Production, said the company "is seeking to bring back production at the projects which had been in development" to even out crude production.
Pemex plans to boost production at the Ku-Maloob-Zaap well complex and at the Ixtal well, elsewhere in the Gulf of Mexico, to match the production lost in recent days, Morales said.
The company is also aiming to develop its Tertiary Gulf Oil Project to compensate for the drop of production, he added.
Once the Gulf's weather improves production will return to the level before the accident, the director said.
The marine platform Usumacinta crashed into the valve tree of the Kab-101 well last Tuesday due to extreme weather conditions including low temperatures, high winds and strong waves.
The accident left 21 people dead, one person still missing, and 63 people were rescued.
Pemex has closed several Gulf of Mexico ports due to rough weather in the southeastern states of Tabasco and Campeche, Mexico's main offshore production centers, wells producing 600,000 barrels a day, because of the ports' closure.
Carlos Morales, the director of Pemex Exploration and Production, said the company "is seeking to bring back production at the projects which had been in development" to even out crude production.
Pemex plans to boost production at the Ku-Maloob-Zaap well complex and at the Ixtal well, elsewhere in the Gulf of Mexico, to match the production lost in recent days, Morales said.
The company is also aiming to develop its Tertiary Gulf Oil Project to compensate for the drop of production, he added.
Once the Gulf's weather improves production will return to the level before the accident, the director said.
The marine platform Usumacinta crashed into the valve tree of the Kab-101 well last Tuesday due to extreme weather conditions including low temperatures, high winds and strong waves.
The accident left 21 people dead, one person still missing, and 63 people were rescued.
Pemex has closed several Gulf of Mexico ports due to rough weather in the southeastern states of Tabasco and Campeche, Mexico's main offshore production centers, wells producing 600,000 barrels a day, because of the ports' closure.
