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Lacq
Lacq
is a
commune
in the
Pyrénées-Atlantiques
department
in
southwestern
France
.
It
lies
just
northwest
of
the local
capital
of
Pau
.
Economy
In
modern times
the
local economy
has been based on the industrial use of
subsurface
petroleum reserves
, and since 1951 on the
extraction
and
development
of a very large
natural
gas reservoir
underneath
the city
.
Processing
of the large
quantities
of
hydrogen sulfide
in the gas have made Lacq a
center
of
sulfur
production
.
