PT,
In addition to my above post, Union Texas discovered oil in Badin District in 1981. They claim that 45% of oil consumption in the country is being met through the reservoirs discovered by this company.
FARID
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This is not hatred, I just want that local population has the first rights in employment in such ventures. Do you agree with that?
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local "qualified" population should have as much right for employment as other "qualified" population.
if they can find peopel locally with the right skills, education and training sure.
It should be merit based, the strongest candidate wins no matter where the candidate is based.
I read earlier in one of your posts that you were some high ranking individual...and that your Sindhi....it doesn't really make sense..on one hand your talking of Sindhi's being repressed..on the other your saying that you were so well off....well all that says is if people work hard..they can get to the top...so quit complaining and if you want to change the climate in Sindh....do something about it... instill the value of education, of human rights etx.... and then there will be change....by the way Sindhu dhesh..or whatever crap... was thought of GM.Syed...and feudal... and that to cause he was an original supporter of congress.....
<< I just want that local population has the first rights in employment in such ventures. Do you agree with that?>>
Of course, I'm. Noraiz Shakoor, agree on that as well.
You keep bringing up Punjab atrocities against Sindh. I asked you one question; show me the evidence where people have been hired from Punjab to do jobs in Sindh in this specific petrolum area, you didn't give straight answer. Accordin to you, Union Texas discovered oil reservoirs in Badin District of Sindh in 1981. Okay, I looked up in Search Engines Yahoo & Google, Sustainable Development Networking Programme, Pakistan, couldn't find the story.
I don't mean to say you're wrong, I'm right but can you back up your statement with source? I just wanna read about it.
Badshah,
I broke lots of barriers to achieve something in Pakistan. Not every one is as lucky as I am. There are lots of qualified Sindhis who are jobless, they can compete with any one on merit, but the barriers of nepotism and ethnic hatred never allowed them to break the barriers.
PT,
Here is the link and extracts
http://www.paksearch.com/page/1999/IS41/!UNION-T.htm
Union Texas Pakistan made its first discovery of oil at Khaskheli in 1981. This discovery constituted a major step in the search of oil reserves outside the traditional Potwar region of the country. Through a string of successful discoveries of oil and gas, Union Texas has been able to establish a new oil basin in the lower Sindh, leading to a new era in the search of hydrocarbons in Pakistan.
As a leader in Pakistan’s oil and gas industry, Union Texas produces around 45 per cent of country’s total domestic oil output and 8 per cent of total gas production. Union Texas has drilled 117 exploration wells as of September 1999 with a success rate of 44 per cent. The company has also drilled 99 appraisal and development wells with a success rate of 89 per cent to date which has led to the discovery of 52 oil and gas fields in Badin Concession Block."
Good stuff.
I'll try and get some stats for Pakistan as a whole soon. Bit out of my way these days. But from what I can remember we're still far from self-sufficiency (~25%).
Powar-Kohat and Badin are the 'oily' places with limited sized fields in the mmbls range not billion.
The Gas provinces in the Central Indus (Sui, Khandkot, Mari etc) would be truly world class multi tcf fields had there not been an impurity problem (CO2 and Nitrogen dilution...also helium in some fields!).
When I was working on Pakistan I was pushing for exploration of the salt-range fm and Makran. Makran turned out to be too complex and mostly gas-prone..I think UMC (now UTP) drilled three wells offshore and onshore but never hit their targets.
Condensate is a rich or oily gas really and sells well on the open market, due to low refining costs...it's composed of all the juiciest parts of the oil so to speak...so I guess it would be exported and the money used to import cheaper crude.
I think the future for Pakistan is to consolidate production from it's small oil fields and continue to upgrade it's gas facilities....so any new gas found is piped straight into the pipe network, this is the most attractive thing about exploring in Pakistan.
Anyway I've gone on a bit.
You know it's a rock formation called the Sembar that is responsible for generating all the gas and most of the oil in Pakistan...and it stops at the border with India:D!!
:rotfl: Thappy.
You sound like a good knowlegeable person. I suggest you should post in Pakistan Affairs more often.
Ministery of Petroleum have signed agreements to enhanced Natural resources with local and foregin companies. 
Ministry authorized to amend agreements: Petroleum exploration
ISLAMABAD, May 1: The government has empowered the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources to amend existing petroleum exploration agreements with local as well as foreign companies in line with the international standards.
A decision to this effect was taken at a recent meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet. It entailed that any supplemental agreements between operators of the two oil or gas fields would no more require approval from the ECC or the cabinet.
While this decision would apply to all the future contracts, the ECC also allowed the ministry to make arrangements of joint processing of gas from two different fields in Sindh that have been developed at a cost of around $350 million.
Documents provided to Dawn suggest that **“though very common in the international petroleum industry, the arrangement of joint processing of gas from two different fields is unique and unprecedented for the local industry that requires certain amendments in respect of the petroleum concession agreements (PCAs)”. **
In addition, a new agreement called joint management and utilization agreement (JUMA) has also been concluded between the joint ventures of two fields to ensure trouble free operations of Kadanwari plant.
Under the agreement, the Kadanwari gas processing plant would be upgraded and de-bottlenecked so that the plant can process additional gas from the Miano field.
**The Tajjal block and Block-20 - located in Sukkur and Khairpur Sindh - are operated by joint ventures led by the Lasmo of UK and the OMV of Austria, respectively. The state-run Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) has working interests of 50 per cent and 52 per cent in Tajjal and Block-20, respectively.
A gas discovery in Tajjal block was made at Kadanwari in 1989 and brought on production in 1995 with capital investment of $200 million. In the meanwhile, another gas discovery was made in Block-20 in 1993. **
Since both discoveries were located in close vicinity in which the OGDCL has majority working interest, the joint venture partners have agreed to develop synergy for processing gas from both the fields at Kadanwari processing plant that would be very economical when compared with separate plants.
The upgradation and de-bottlenecking of Kadanwari plan was financed by the Miano JV, enabling the Miano field to start production in January 2002. Now under the two agreements, one of the operators - Lasmo or OMV - is authorized to conduct the operations of Kadanwari gas processing plan for and on behalf of both the joint ventures on the principle that such operator will not gain or lose in doing such operations.
Both the joint ventures would share the cost of processing on equitable basis linked to the throughput of respective fields.
Farid,
Thanks for the link. It was a good read. :k:
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The Gas provinces in the Central Indus (Sui, Khandkot, Mari etc) would be truly world class multi tcf fields had there not been an impurity problem (CO2 and Nitrogen dilution...also helium in some fields!).
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Can they not devise some stripping units to get rid of these impurities? like they have some sort of sulphur removal units in other parts of the world.
They do remove the impurities, but it's a costly step and just a shame, as I say these would have been world class sized fields otherwise. 20-30 tcf is a big deal.
Just on another note, India is similarly around 25% self sufficient, they'd be in a much worse situation had they not discovered vast offshore oil and gas reserves (Bombay High, Cambay, Krishna-Godavari and Cauvery).
Here’s another good read article about PEL(Petroleum Exploration Limited) a private company, who has taken over recently. The company has got 22 blocks total from province Sindh and Baluchistan.
Pakistan Exploration Ltd Assumes Operatorship of Block 22
Petroleum Exploration Limited or PEL, Pakistan’s first private oil and gas company has taken over the operatorship of Block 22 to develop Sadiq X-1, Khanpur X-1 and Hasan X-1 in the Provinces Sindh and Balochistan from Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL).
The Joint Venture partners in this Block are Pakistan Petroleum Limited with a working interest of 35.5%, Government Holdings (Pvt) Limited with a working interest of 25% and Pyramid Energy International Inc, Canada with a working interest of 15.78%. The working interest of Petroleum Exploration (Pvt) Limited is 23.68%.
This block was awarded to Petroleum Exploration (Pvt) Limited in November 1994. The operatorship was transferred to joint venture partner PPL in 1996. The Block is located in the administrative districts of Shikarpur, Jacobabad, and Sukkur in Sindh Province and District Nasirabad in Balochistan Province. It has on its North Giant Sui Gas Field, Uch and Loti Gas Fields, on its South it has Kandra Gas Field, on its East it has Ghauspur, Kandhkot and Mari Gas Fields.
**The total investment made through March 2003 in the Block is US $16.9 million. **
Director General Petroleum Concession (DGPC) had approved declaration of commerciality over Block-22 in November 2002. Subsequently, DGPC granted D&P Leases for Hasan, Sadiq and Khanpur and approved the Development Plan in April 2003. The salient features of the Development Plan having three phases include Phase 1 -Hasan X-1 Extended Well Test (Commenced in December 2000 and 14 MMscfd gas was supplied to SNGPL till April 03, 2003), Phase 2 - Tie-in Sadiq-1 and Khanpur-1 with the existing processing facility and enhance the production from current rate of 14 MMscfd to 20-22 MMscfd and Phase 3 - Drill and complete development well Hasan-2 on Structure D and increase the gas supply to 30 MMscfd.
A compressor station will be installed during 2006 to maintain the plateau rate of gas production. **PEL has an aggressive exploration policy and presently has exploration licenses over Kandra and Mirpur Mathelo Blocks and a mining lease over Badar Gas Field with the working interest at Kandra being 95%, Mirpur Mathelo 95% and Badar Gas field 26.32% accordingly. Petroleum Exploration (Pvt) Limited is the Operator in all these blocks. **