CAMPOS MADUROS

Mature fields are those fields where the profit margin is profitable but not
competitive enough with other projects in the investment portfolio of PEP. The
concept of maturity is dynamic, ie , may be temporary depending on market
conditions and level of extraction and production costs.
Mature field development is a broad subject. It can divided into two main parts: a)
well development, and b) reservoir development. Depending on the field type,
history, and prospects, the development plans could be done on either one or both.
Oil fields after a certain production period are called mature fields. A more specific
definition of mature fields is the fields reaching the peak of their production or
producing fields in declining mode. A third definition could be the fields reaching
their economic limit after primary and secondary recovery efforts.
Stages In Mature Field Development. A) Well Enhancement: (Optimization of lift,
Well

stimulation,

Multilaterals

Re-visiting

Wells).

B)

Drilling:

(Verticals

Side-tracking,

Infills).

C)

Secondary

Recovery:

Horizontals,
(Pressure

maintenance, Waterflooding, Gas (immiscible) injection). D) Tertiary Recovery:

(Gas (CO2, hydrocarbon-rich), Chemical (surfactant, micellar), Thermal (air).
The mature field CaparrosoEscuintle-Pijije is a structural train formed by the Caparroso
fields, Escuintle and Pijije (CEP), which are delimited by reverse faults oriented NW -SE.
Producing rocks are highly fractured limestones due to heavy intrusion of salt.

The

cumulative production of complex fields is 179 mmb oil and 504 Bcf of gas where the field
that produces 97 % of production is Pijije. The behavior of the RGA has remained constant
in the order of 450 to 500 m3 / m3.

CHICONTEPEC
Chicontepec is located in the Tampico-Misantla Basin in the southern part of the
Sierra Madre Oriental fold and thrust belt, east-central Mexico. The Chicontepec
regin is another mature rea with potential for production enhancement. Oil was
discovered there in 1926, and first comercial production began in 1952.

The area of the Chicontepec field is very large. Reservoir sediments are turbidites
deposited in a deep-water canyon that was eroded into the floor of the Chicontepec
basin. The basin is estimated to be about 260 km in length and covers an area of
11,300 km2. Turbidite sediments accumulated in a canyon about 123 km in length,
having an average width of 25 km.
The presence of hydrocarbons in the lenticular Chicontepec sandstones has been
known for decades through the drilling over time of approximately 1200 wells. The
prime objectives, however, in all of these wells were the Cretaceous Tamaulipas
limestone of the Golden Lane and the Jurassic Pimiento and San Andres
formations, all of which are prolific producers. It was during this intensive drilling
that oil and gas in commercial quantities were noted in the lower Eocene and
upper Paleocene sandstones of the Chicontepec formation.
PEMEX was awarded 3.82 billion boe in proven and probable reserves across the
fields of Chicontepec, Ebano, Panuco, and Faja de Oro. This left 8.93 billion boe of
prospective resources and 2.68 billion boe of proven and probable reserves for
companies to bid on in Chicontepec and nearby unconventional fields as part of
Round One. The future of Chicontepec depends on the solid past that has been
built and is based primarily on his team and implement new ideas greatly.