Pemex Bets on Natural Gas-Rich Ixachi Field; AMLO Backs Production Goals

摘要

Mexico’s state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) will invest 56 billion pesos or about $3 billion in the natural gas- rich Ixachi feld in Veracruz with the aim of reaching production of 80,000 b/d of crude and 600 MMcf/d of gas by 2023, CEO Octavio Romero Oropeza said on Tuesday. The feld, considered one of the big- gest fnds in the past two decades in Mexico with proved, possible and probable reserves of 1.5 billion boe, is already producing 30 MMcf/d of gas and 3,600 b/d of condensate, Romero said.