Peak oil and Mexico: The socioeconomic impacts of Cantarellӳ decline
Energy Bulletin, 27 August 2008
It is now widely recognized that Mexico’s Cantarell, the second most productive oil field in the world, is in terminal decline. Adrian Lajous, former CEO of the state-owned oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has bluntly described the situation: “Cantarell has peaked and has started its decline.”