The four-year exploration plan for the block located in the Gulf's Salina Basin is also expected to lead to an investment of $199.5 million (£142.5 million) and add up to 75 million barrels of oil equivalent in reserves, according to the CNH.

Norway's Statoil and France's Total are equity partners in the BP-led consortium, which won the development rights to the block in Mexico's first-ever deepwater oil auction in late 2016.

(Reporting by David Alire Garcia)

Stocks treated in this article : Total, Statoil, BP