Tag: Gas

QUETTA - Unknown men blew up gas pipelines, supplying natural gas to the gas purification plants in Pir Koh and Sui on late Saturday night. The Levis Force said some unidentified men had planted explosives with the pipeline in Pir Koh between the well No 15 and 16 which they detonated with remote control, suspending the gas supply to the gas purification plant.
Soon after the incident, the Levis Force reached the site, cordoned off the blast area and launched the search operation

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has finalised a portfolio of 32 energy projects to seek financial assistance from China, including the construction of the Iran Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project, oil refineries along Balochistan coast and exploitation of Thar coal reserves in Sindh.
Briefing reporters on the energy sector, Petroleum Secretary Imtiaz Kazi said the portfolio of energy projects would be discussed at the next meeting of the energy working group of the two countries. During the

KARACHI - The All Pakistan CNG Association has threatened to call a countrywide strike against the government's latest decision to continue with two-day-a-week CNG load shedding. Setting aside the announcement made by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani that said the ongoing gas load shedding in the country would end by March 15, the Petroleum Ministry has extended load shedding schedule up until June, APCNGA Chairman Ghias Abdullah Paracha said in a statement.
He said CNG station

LAHORE - The shortage of gas supply to certain power plants is the main reason behind an increase in the power shortfall, Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) Director General (DG) Muhammad Khalid said on Tuesday. He was speaking at a weekly press conference at the WAPDA House. The PEPCO DG said that the company was facing a shortfall of 1,423MW, as production stood at 10,263MW and demand 11,686MW. Khalid said that hydel power plants were producing 3,973MW, thermal 1,577MW,

LAHORE - Low gas pressure continued to irk consumers in the city on Friday. Annoyed by the continuing gas crisis, Gawalmandi residents staged a protest against the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Company Limited (SNGPL) in front of Lahore Press Club yesterday.
Protesters, holding placards, chanted slogans against SNGPL management. They blocked the road for sometime which resulted in a traffic jam. Irate gas consumers said they were facing problems in cooking food owing to low gas

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday announced that gas load shedding would end by the mid of March, adding that 1,100 megawatts (MW) of electricity were in the pipeline which would be inducted in the main system in the near future.
Talking to a delegation of the Federation of the Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), the prime minister said the government had already inducted more than 1,700 megawatts of additional electricity since coming into

LAHORE - All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Chairman Gohar Ejaz thanked President Asif Ali Zardari for immediately restoring gas to textile industries in Punjab and ensuring prompt compliance of the directive.
Addressing a news conference, here on Thursday, along with SNGPL Deputy Managing Director Shariq and APTMA office-bearers, Gohar Ejaz said that Faisalabad had been given preference in restoration of five weeks gas supply to industries in Punjab on the APTMA's

JAKARTA - A senior Indonesian government official said about $10 billion is needed to halve the country's oil use, replacing it with gas, local media reported here on Thursday. The National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) energy and natural resources chief Monti Giriana said that the money would be used to build basic infrastructure such as pipelines, gas stations and gas receiving terminals.
"We estimate that gas consumption in Java, the island with the highest fuel

PESHAWAR - The Mole International Company has explored such deposits of oil and gas at Makori in Kohat district as can address the needs of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.According to Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the Mole International's new regional chief called on Chief Minister Amir Haider khan Hoti on Wednesday and informed him about the latest achievements regarding these deposits. Mian Iftikhar said the new well would give around 6,000 barrels of oil and 10 ml cubic gas on

LAHORE - While taking serious notice of gas supply suspension to the textile industry in Punjab, President Asif Ali Zardari has directed the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) managing director to ensure five days a week uninterrupted gas supply to the textile industry in the province of Punjab.
According to the APTMA spokesman, the president has further directed the concerned authorities to divert gas supply to the export-oriented textile industry from the power plants

BERLIN - Despite some improvements, oil and gas firms must do more to help stop corruption in the poor but resource-rich countries where they operate, watchdog Transparency International (TI) said on Tuesday. "Two-thirds of the world's poor live in resource-rich countries. They have a right to know how much money their governments get from companies to exploit these resources," Berlin-based TI said as it published a new report.
"It is good news that transparency is improving,

LAHORE - Textile export target can only be achieved if gas supplies remain normal in 2011 but unfortunately industry is not getting gas, said All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Chairman Gohar Ejaz.
He was addressing a press conference at APTMA House on Monday. He said 2011 was declared year of Textile, but unfortunately under current circumstances, it is not possible. He said President Asif Ali Zardari had convened a meeting of APTMA and SNGPL on Tuesday to avoid

FAISALABAD - Industrial and textile sectors of the city, along with labour unions, held a massive protest rally to condemn the government's discrimination against Faisalabad that was facing a 5-day gas holiday according to the revised schedule issued by SNGPL authorities. Reportedly, the protest rally was held by the regional office of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA), Anjuman Tajiran City Faisalabad, members of Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) and a

LAHORE - Criticising another 5-day gas suspension to industry in Punjab, the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) said the decision would hit exports, productivity and government revenues hard. Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani should intervene and help ensure regular supply of gas to industries.
In a joint statement issued here on Saturday, LCCI President Shahzad Ali Malik, Senior Vice President Sheikh Mohammad Arshad and Vice President Sohail Azhar said that the gas

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday directed that gas connections throughout the country be provided to the consumers according to the rules and constitutional provisions and not through discretionary powers. A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani was hearing a suo motu case against the supply of gas connections on political basis and discretionary powers, taken on the letter of one female

LAHORE - The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Chairman Gohar Ejaz has urged the government to assure uninterrupted gas supply to the textile industry from March 01, 2011 onwards. He warned that the industry would suffer serious production losses if gas supply remains absent. He was leading a delegation of APTMA members in a meeting with SNGPL Managing Director Rashid Lone on Tuesday.
Gohar Ejaz expressed serious concerns over unprecedented gas supply suspension this

BUDAPEST - Hungarian oil and gas group MOL MOLB.BU has found new oil and gas in the TAL block in Pakistan, the company said in a statement on Monday. "Oil and gas have been encountered in the exploratory well, Tolanj X-1 that is being drilled in TAL Block, Pakistan," MOL said.
The drilled section yielded 2,900 barrels of oil equivalent per day worth of gas, MOL said and added that it also found oil, but it did not quantify that find. KBC Securities analyst Lajos Meszaros said the