| Cantarell | |
|---|---|
 Cantarell offshore rigs, 2009 | |
| Country | Mexico |
| Region | North America |
| Offshore/onshore | Offshore |
| Operator | Pemex |
| Field history | |
| Discovery | 1976 |
| Start of production | 1979[1] |
| Peak of production | 2004 |
| Production | |
| Current production of oil | 159,300 barrels per day (~7.938×106 t/a)[2] |
| Year of current production of oil | 2019 |
| Producing formations | Jurassic |
Cantarell Field or Cantarell Complex is an aging supergiant offshore oil field in Mexico. It was discovered in 1976 after oil stains were noticed by a fisherman, Rudesindo Cantarell Jimenez, in 1972.[3][4] It was placed on nitrogen injection in 2000, and production peaked at 2.1 million barrels per day (330,000 m3/d) in 2004.[5] In terms of cumulative production to date, it was the largest oil field in Mexico, and one of the largest in the world. However, production has declined since 2004, falling to 158,300 barrels per day (25,200 m3/d) in 2022. In 2009 it was superseded by Ku-Maloob-Zaap as Mexico's largest oil field.[6]
- ^ PEMEX: SEC Filing: Form 20-F, Annual Report 1994, Production, p. 10
- ^ PEMEX: Annual Report 2018, FORM 20-F, Crude Oil Production, p. 32
- ^ Morton, M. Quentin (2021-12-06). "Mexico: Onshore to Offshore" (PDF). GEOExPro. GeoPublishing. p. 53. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
Pemex drilled its first offshore wells in the 1950s, but the breakthrough came in 1972 when a fisherman named Rudesindo Cantarell Jimenez led Pemex geologists to a location some 50 miles off the coast in the Bay of Campeche where an oil slick had fouled his nets. Named Cantarell after the fisherman, the supergiant oil field was hailed by Mexican officials as 'el salvador del pais', the saviour of the country.
- ^ Murawski SA, Hollander DJ, Gilbert S, Gracia A (2019). "Chapter 2 - Deepwater Oil and Gas Production in the Gulf of Mexico and Related Global Trends". In Murawski SA, Ainsworth CH, Gilbert S, Hollander DJ, Paris CB, Schlüter M, Wetzel DL (eds.). Scenarios and Responses to Future Deep Oil Spills. Cham, CH: Springer Nature Switzerland. p. 24. ISBN 978-3-030-12963-7.
In 1972 fisherman Rudesindo Cantarell Jimenez noticed the presence of oil off the coast of Campeche which eventually led in 1976 to the disconvery of the massive Cantarell oil field complex (Guzman 2013; Duncan et al. 2018; Fig. 2.1).
- ^ "Mexico's Pemex to Spend $6B to Maintain Output at Cantarell". www.rigzone.com. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
- ^ Andres R. Martinez; Carlos M. Rodriguez (2009-02-22). "Pemex's Cantarell Drops at Fastest Rate in 14 Years". Bloomberg.