Exclusive: Mexico’s Pemex increased gas flaring at top field, despite pledge to stop

Payne Institute Earth Observation Group Research Associate Mikhail Zhizhin contributes to this article by analyzing satellite data. State oil company Pemex promised late last year that it would stop burning natural gas from a major field in southeast Mexico by mid-January, amid mounting pressure to improve its poor environmental record. But satellite data analyzed by scientists exclusively for Reuters – as well as a visit by reporters to the site – showed that gas flaring from the vast Ixachi field in Veracruz state not only continued, but it increased. February 28, 2003.