At the beginning of this year, the U.S. company Talos, as part of its strategy to improve as a private company and as a fundamental figure that led the work for the discovery of the Zama field in 2017, which is considered one of the largest oil discoveries in the hands of private companies, decided to sell 49% of the shares of its subsidiary in Mexico to Grupo Carso, owned by Carlos Slim.
Talos por dicha operación recibió una cantidad aproximada de $74.8 millones de dólares al cierre de operación y recibirá $49.9 millones ante la primera producción de petróleo que se realice, y mantiene un 17.4%de interés en el campo marino Zama que comparte con la empresa estatal Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), la cual opera el yacimiento. Pemex y el consorcio privado encabezado por Talos gastaran $9,000 millones de dólares para impulsar el desarrollo del campo, el cual se estima que comenzara su producción durante el 2025 y alcanzara su pico de 180.000 barriles diarios de petróleo en 2029, esto según datos de Arturo Solís para la revista Bloomberg Linea.
This mega field has also been one of the reasons for dispute between the private sector and the government. The discussion on the operation of the field, which was the first discovered by private companies after the oil rounds, lasted for more than two years, as Talos and Pemex disputed the ownership of its operation, which finally remained in the hands of the state-owned company Petróleos Mexicanos.
