Lacq

French commune
nomcommune= Lacq
région=Aquitaine
département=Pyrénées-Atlantiques
arrondissement=Pau
canton=Arthez-de-Béarn
and Lagor
insee=64300
cp=64170
maire=Guy Cassou
mandat=2001-2008
intercomm=Communauté de communes de Lacq
longitude=-0.6175
latitude=43.41361
alt moy=95 m
alt mini=88 m
alt maxi=190 m
hectares=1,705
km²=17.05
sans=658
date-sans=1999
dens=38.59
date-dens=1999

Lacq is a town and commune of southwestern France, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques "département", just northwest of the local capital of Pau. Population (1999): 658.

Economy

In modern times it has been based around the industrial uses 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.