Mexico's hydrocarbon regulator is investigating state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) over suspected excessive natural gas flaring and other violations at another giant field, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
In 2019, Pemex, which is under international pressure to clean up its operating practices, hailed the Quesqui field in the southern state of Tabasco as the most important energy find in the region in three decades.
Neither the energy ministry nor Pemex responded to requests for comment. The CNH declined to comment. He also promised to tackle high - and rising - rates of gas flaring, calling it "the most irrational thing that can happen: to be buying gas and having to burn it here, with the contamination that it implies."
But just like the Ixachi field, the gas in Quesqui is not a byproduct: it is a key resource, along with higher-value condensate.
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