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ORF Onshore Receiving Facilities

Contribution to the execution phase of the ‘First Oil’ for the first
foreign Oil&Gas company to produce oil since the approval of
Energy Reform in Mexico (2013), as part of a new greenfield
development project located in the Campeche Bay off the coast

Pino Gozzo, Engineering Manager
DG IMPIANTI INDUSTRIALI S.P.A.

he overall project development consists full field production (named PHASE 2) started in 2022
of an offshore platform, which delivers by means of an FPSO, will increase production up to
the production to the Onshore 100,000 barrels of oil per day.
Receiving Facility (ORF) located in DG Impianti scope included engineering, procurement,
Sanchez Magallanes, through a construction, commissioning and start-up of ORF,
T multiphase sealine. After separation at including the tie ins with PEMEX areas in Bateria San
ORF, production is directed to Pemex’s San Ramón Ramon and ECO San Ramon.
plant for treatment.
The project has been developed in a fast track
approach. The production has started since two years Phase 1 Project Detail
and a half from the drilling of the first well in Area 1 and The plant consists of a process area, which includes
in less than one year since the approval of the pig trap area and separation unit, (with two separators,
development plan, totally fulfilling the expectations of one slug catcher, seven measurement skids and the
the Mexican Government, aimed to increase the overall flaring system); utility area, (which includes the power
production in the country. generation, the compressed air system, the fuel gas
skid, the nitrogen unit); building area ( control and
“This project has been developed electrical room); telecommunication system and
in a fast track approach firefighting system.

The manifold unit, which include the manual choke
This early production phase (named PHASE 1) valve, the HIPPS and the pressure transmitters for
produces up to 15,000 barrels of oil per day, while the alarm and process shut down, receives the multiphase

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