LatAmOil: Pemex fails to uphold pledge to halt gas flaring at Ixachi field

Mexico’s national oil company (NOC) Pemex has failed to uphold the commitment it made late last year to stop flaring at Ixachi, one of the country’s major natural gas fields, by mid-January of 2023, according to an exclusive report from Reuters.

The state-owned company had pledged to halt flaring at Ixachi, which is located in Veracruz state, after coming under growing environmental pressure. However, satellite data analysed by Reuters and a visit by reporters to the site indicated that gas flaring had not only continued but had increased in scale.

The news agency said on February 28 that an estimated 1.3bn cubic feet (36.81mn cubic metres) of gas from Ixachi had been burned off in four flares at the Papan and Perdiz plants in January, up from 1 bcf (28.32 mcm) in November.