The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obradormet this Tuesday at the National Palace with the executive director of the Australian firm Woodside Energy, Meg O’Neill, that in the coming years will produce oil in the Mexican state of Tamaulipasnortheast of the country.
In a message on social networks, the Mexican president reported that the company, an oil and gas production operator in Australia, in association with Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), “currently developing a deep water oil field 180 kilometers east of MatamorosTamaulipas.”
Said The investment amounts to 11,679 million dollars to produce, starting in 2028, about 110,000 barrels per day of crude oil and 90 million cubic feet of gas.
We are in the energy transition, but it will still be necessary for two or three decades to use hydrocarbons rationally“López Obrador noted in his message.
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The meeting was attended by the Government of Mexico, the heads of the Secretaries of Energy, Rocío Nahle, and of Economy, Raquel Buenrostro, as well as the general director of Pemex, Octavio Romero Oropeza and the governor of Tamaulipas, Américo Villareal.
While Woodside Energy was attended by the executive vice president of projects, Matthew Ridolfi; the vice president for Trion, Stephan Drouaud; the general director and legal representative in Mexico, Timothy Callahan and the director of Corporate Affairs in Mexico, Alfonso Solís Haces.
On September 1, during his fifth and penultimate government report, López Obrador promised that the country will stop importing gasoline in 2024 because all production will now be in charge of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex).
The plan is that next year we will not buy gasoline or diesel abroad, and that all crude oil will be processed here to give added value to our raw material,” declared the president in the state of Campeche, southeast of the country.
López Obrador recalled that at the beginning of his administration, in December 2018, Mexico imported 900,000 barrels of gasoline per day, 80% of national consumption, but this proportion has been reduced to 20% this year, to 250,000 barrels.
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