Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Cantarell Field" in English language version.
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).
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.
