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Pemex to Increase Fracking to Tap Unconventional Hydrocarbon Deposits

Mexico's state energy company, Pemex, has announced a strategic shift towards hydraulic fracturing to exploit unconventional hydrocarbon deposits.

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Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) will continue to focus its production on conventional deposits and will analyze in each case the viability of the non-conventional ones, said Victor Rodríguez Padilla, director general of the company. He emphasized that the fracking technique as it is known will not be carried out. "We have (reserves by) 200 billion barrels, of which 64 billion are in unconventional deposits and almost half is natural gas," he emphasi…

The Black president will continue with the fracking initiated by former presidents Enrique Peña Nieto and Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, since in their administrations, Pemex drilled 25 exploratory wells to verify the viability of such deposits.

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(Sen. Laura Itzel Castillo, president of the Energy Commission, and Víctor Rodríguez Padilla, director general of Pemex. Photo: Senate of the Republic) The director general of Mexican Oils (Pemex), Víctor Rodríguez Padilla, said that the company will not apply the technique of fracking, at least not as it did about twenty years ago. “We will not frack, we will not do that,” he said at the National Energy Forum held this Thursday in the Senate of…

The general director of Mexican Oils (Pemex), Víctor Rodríguez, said that that company will not use the method of “fracking” in deep waters, or at least, it will not be the traditional one. We will not frack: Pemex In the framework of the National Energy Forum held in the Senate of the Republic, the director general of Pemex, said that the fracking of the 2000s “is very different today, we are not going to frack, we are not going to do that, we …

During the National Energy Forum held in the Senate of the Republic, the director general of Pemex, Víctor Rodríguez Padilla said that there will be no fracking in Mexico, at least not as it is traditionally done: “fracking is very different today, we are not going to do that,” he said during his participation. While he did not specify exactly what he meant, he emphasized that his biggest bet is on conventional deposits. Although the development…

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El Economista broke the news in on Thursday, August 7, 2025.
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