Pemex's plan highlighted technological advances made over the last decade in well design, drilling and completion that it said would minimize environmental impacts and preserve freshwater resources.nHydraulic fracturing today has nothing to do with that of 20 years ago," Fluvio Ruiz, a former independent advisor for Pemex, said in an interview, add

Mexico had attempted to exploit unconventional oil and gas plays that required hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, following sweeping energy reform in 2014, but the bidding processes to secure contracts were unsuccessful. Former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, in office from 2018 to 2024, ruled out developing oil and gas reserves via fracking

There are 50 hostages still held in Gaza, of whom Israeli officials believe 20 are alive. Most of those freed so far emerged as a result of diplomatic negotiations. Talks toward a ceasefire that could have seen more hostages released collapsed in July. A senior Palestinian official said Hamas had told Arab mediators an increase in humanitarian aid

Hamas official Osama Hamdan told Al Jazeera the group would treat any force formed to govern Gaza as an "occupying" force linked to Israel. Earlier this year Israel and the United States rejected an Egyptian proposal, backed by Arab leaders, that envisaged the creation of an administrative committee of independent, professional Palestinian technocr

He said Israel wanted to hand over the territory to Arab forces that would govern it. He did not elaborate on the governance arrangements or which Arab countries could be involved. Netanyahu made the comments to Fox News shortly before a meeting he was due to have on Thursday with a small group of senior ministers to discuss plans for the military