Launching of Floatel for Pemex

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(Pemex, 28.Aug.2015) – The vessel will have the capacity to accommodate 700 platform workers.

The accommodation vessel (floatel, floating hotel) built to service Pemex’s platforms, was launched at Navantia’s shipyard in Ferrol, Galicia. It will be completed and delivered next year.

The current progress of the construction of the floatel is 65%, which means an advancement of 2months from the date stipulated in the agreement signed in Mar.2014.

The work will focus now in completing the installation of piping, wiring and commissioning of systems for energy generation, propulsion, communications as well as subsequent tests at sea.

The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Pemex Comercio Internacional, (PMI) and Corporate Director of Partnerships and New Business of Pemex, José Manuel Carrera, noted that the launching represents a significant event for Pemex, as part of its strategy to maintain and, in the medium term, increase its production in oil fields at the Gulf of Mexico.

He recalled that this floatel is one of two vessels for Pemex to provide accommodation to workers, which began construction in March of last year at the shipyards of Navantia and Hijos de J. Barreras, in Galicia.

In the event, José Manuel Revuelta, president of Navantia, asserted that this shipyard is leader and world reference in the design, construction and integration of high-tech vessels.

The floatel, whose construction involved more than one million hours of work, is a multipurpose ship with high technology and dynamic positioning DP3, with capacity to accommodate approximately 700 workers from the oil rigs over long periods of time. It has cabins, dining rooms, recreation rooms, as well as a telescopic gangway to allow the direct passage of personnel to the supported platforms.

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