---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001749723-22-000047"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NFE"
cik: "0001749723"
company_name: "New Fortress Energy Inc."
filed_at: "2022-11-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T14:13:26.687755+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# New Fortress Energy finalizes Lakach gas field deal with Pemex, plans FLNG deployment

## Summary
- NFE will invest in developing 7 offshore wells over 2 years for the Lakach field in Mexico.
- NFE will deploy its 1.4 MTPA Sevan Driller FLNG unit to liquefy majority of produced gas.
- Lakach field expected to yield ~10 years of production; nearby fields add 3.3 Tcf resource.
- NFE receives fee per unit of production; has right to purchase gas for FLNG at contracted rate.
- Agreement supported by Mexican President López Obrador; Pemex retains title to hydrocarbons.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001749723-22-000047
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NFE
- cik: 0001749723
- company_name: New Fortress Energy Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-11-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1749723/000174972322000047/0001749723-22-000047-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1749723/000174972322000047/nfe-20221121.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001749723-22-000047.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  New Fortress Energy Inc. entered into Development Agreement with Pemex Exploración y Producción (PEP) (effective 2022-11-21).
  - Action: entry
  - Counterparty: Pemex Exploración y Producción (PEP)
  - Effective: 2022-11-21
  source text: On November 21, 2022, indirect subsidiaries of New Fortress Energy Inc. (“NFE”), NFE Upstream Co, S. de R.L. de C.V. (“NFE Upstream”), a limited liability company organized under the laws of Mexico, FLNG Lakach Upstream Holdco Limited (“NFE UK”), a limited company organized under the laws of England and Wales, and Pemex Exploración y Producción (“PEP”), a “state production company” organized under the laws of Mexico and a subsidiary of Petróleos Mexicanos, the state-owned oil and gas company of Mexico, entered into an Integral Exploration and Extraction Service Contract (the “Development Agreement”), pursuant to which NFE Upstream will provide services to (the “Development Services”), and receive contractual payments from, PEP for the extraction, production and delivery of natural gas and condensates from the Lakach deep-water natural gas field in Mexican territorial waters in the Gulf of Mexico.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1749723/000174972322000047/0001749723-22-000047-index.htm

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