Mexico's Attorney General is investigating accusations of labor exploitation and illegal operations by Grupo Nuvoil at a Pemex platform.
The investigation file FED/FEMDO/FEITPOC-CAMP/0001076/2025 indicates that Grupo Nuvoil, owned by Mariano Hernández Palmero, exploits immigrant workers from Cuba and Venezuela on the Agosto 12 platform. Conditions include irregular, dangerous, unsanitary work without certifications, allegedly with the complicity of Faustino Fuentes Nucamendi, deputy director of Pemex Exploración y Producción's Northern Region.
Since March 2019, Nuvoil/SIC seized the platform by force, displacing the Trese crew led by Ricardo Silva Padilla. The ruling R.C. 345/2023 determined that Nuvoil operates in total illegality, according to worker testimonies claiming unauthorized gas injection and toxic waste dumping into the sea continue.
Despite probes by the Agencia de Investigación Criminal and the Secretaría de Seguridad in the first half of 2026, Nuvoil holds 40 active contracts worth over 57,200 million pesos through subsidiaries including Sistemas Integrales de Compresión, Geolis, and TFS Turbine Field Solutions. Juan Carlos Carpio Fragoso, Pemex's new director, now faces this case.
