According to the call for the award of the services contract in the area, which was deserted last six years, the objective of the project is to maximize the economic value of the hydrocarbon reserves for the Lakach Field, located in the contractual area of the same name.

The Mexican businessman Carlos Slim met with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador with one objective: to invest close to US$ 840 million in Mexican deep waters, if the association that the first president presented in which Grupo Carso and Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) materializes ) will develop the Lakach gas field, in deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

According to the call for the award of the services contract in the area, which was deserted last six years, the objective of the project is to maximize the economic value of the hydrocarbon reserves for the Lakach Field, located in the contractual area of the same name.

With the activities required at the site, at more than 1,500 meters deep under the water depth, it is contemplated to recover a gas volume of 847.9 billion cubic feet, with a recovery factor of 64.67% after the characterization that the Mexican State has carried out through Pemex in the exploration of the field since 2006.

Pemex assures that field has reserves

The field, as explained by Pemex, has proven and probable reserves of this volume of gas, in addition to condensed liquids with a high market value of more than 3.5 million barrels, which has been of interest to this administration that has developed land fields, such as Quesqui, which has allowed a volume of more than 200,000 barrels per day of these products for which a market has been found.

In the specific case of Lakach, Pemex has kept it plugged since 2016, derived from the fact that a greater profit would be expected in the extraction of gas, which did not even happen recently, since the trend of shale exploitation in the United States has maintained the lowest global price for the region for two decades.

Then it was reported that Pemex has invested more than US$ 1,000 million in Lakach, an amount that for other associations with the company and according to global practices, will be the subject of a possible carry by its partner, which will enter with capital while the state-owned company will only contribute information and experience in the field during the first years.

In 2022, the government announced that it already had a partner to start the development of the field: the American company New Fortress, which would also build the regasification infrastructure on land. However, the company with contracts for the sale of liquefied gas in Asia only placed its terminal in Altamira, leaving the association with Pemex.

Now it would be Carso's energy subsidiary that would seek to continue the exploitation of Lakach. Just last September, the American oil company Talos Energy closed the sale of a 49.9% stake in its oil business in the country to the company Zamajal, of Grupo Carso, for a total amount of US$ 124.7 million.

The transaction had an amount of US$ 74.8 million in cash and an additional US$ 49.9 million owed from the first oil production of the Zama megafield, the first that a private company has discovered in Mexico, in 2015, and which would begin production in 2025, with associated resources of around 800 million barrels.

In deep waters, Pemex has in consortium with the Australian Woodside the Trión field, which would represent the first oil production - in 2028 - in this geology, located in the Gulf of Mexico, at 2,500 meters deep, about 180 kilometers from the Tamaulipas coast.