Mexico's state oil company Pemex has ordered two floating hotels (floatels) at two Spanish shipyards.
The contracts were signed by Jose Manuel Carrera, head of Pemex Internacional España; Ramon Aguirre Rodriguez, president of the Sepi industrial holding company that owns state-owed Spanish shipbuilder Navantia; and Jose Garcia Costa, president of Spanish private shipyard Barreras.
The oil company is to pay EUR 300m ($392m) for the floating accommodation vessels at the Navantia and Barreras shipyards in northwestern Spain.
The two floatels will be identical, both measuring 131 meters (143 yards) in length with a 27-meter beam and a deadweight of 7,000 tons.
They will be able to travel at a maximum speed of 12 knots and have the capacity to house 600 oil workers.
They are to be delivered in a period of 30 months and the start of construction is imminent.