Huge oil, gas reserves found in Balochistan

[TOPGUN]

Huge is great if it is actually put to work for country and its people ......

 

[marbella]

After having 25000 billion dollar coal reserves, 2000 billion dollar reqo diq gold reserves and HUGE gas reserves,
LNG of 16 billion dollar, 5 million tonnes of coal, millions of dollars of gold is 'imported'.

A Chaudhry has land of a billion rupees, but some people of his family suffer due to poor medical facility and malnutrition and debt.
In my opinion he should start farming or leasing or selling some of his land to provide prosperity to his family.

 

[Braith]

These gas and oil reservoirs belongs to Balochs, particularly to Marri tribesmen........100% of it should be directed towards development and upliftment of Marris and other Balochs, not a single cubic foot of gas should be directed elsewhere

 

[Qutb-ud-din Aybak]

Pakistan will soon become exporter of oil. I have been saying this since long time.

 

[khail007]

Good news as 2017 begins.
Till today we are utilising the mineral resources from Balochistan, remember SUI; upto now the fate of our brothers did not changed. We have to do something earlier to elevate the lives of our brothers from Balochistan.
The earlier the better.

 

[jamal18]

Pakistan will soon become exporter of oil. I have been saying this since long time.

 

[BDforever]

QUETTA: A huge reserve of oil and gas has been found in Jandran area of Marri Agency of Balochistan.

These gas reserves are said to be much bigger than gas found in Sui Dera Bugti in early1950.

Well placed sources confirmed that gas reserve found in Jandran region is much bigger than gas found in Sui Gas reserves from Sui first and followed by two other big reserves at Pir Koh and Loti field.

Sui gas was main cause of industrial revolution in Pakistan mainly in Karachi and Central Punjab where gas replaced oil as an energy substitute.

The fourth gas reserve was also found in Bugti tribal territory in Uch Mountains and the gas is being used by a private concern producing electricity at the two Uch Power Plants near Dera Murad Jamali in Naseerabad.

The electricity produced at Uch Power Plant is sold to WAPDA and transmitted to National Grid in nearby province of Sindh and mainly its upper region.

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Huge gas reserves, bigger than Sui, found in Jandran
Published on – December 25, 2016 – 2:31 am
By Siddiq Baluch

QUETTA: A huge reserve of gas and oil was found in the Jandran region of Marri Tribal Territory of Balochistan. The Jandran gas reserves are said to be much bigger than the gas found in Sui in Bugti area in early 1950s.

Highly credible sources confirmed it to the media persons saying that the gas reserve found in Jandran region is much bigger than the gas found at Sui Gas Field in the Bugti Tribal Territory in early 1950s.

Gas reserves from Sui first and followed by two other big reserves at Pir Koh and Loti fed the whole country and met its energy requirements for more than six decades.

Sui gas was the main cause of industrial revolution in Pakistan, mainly in Karachi and the Central Punjab where gas replaced oil as an energy substitute.

The fourth gas reserves was also found in the Bugti Tribal Territory in Uch Mountains and the gas is being used by the private concern producing electricity in bulk at the two Uch Power Plants in Naseerabad.

The entire electricity produced at the Uch Power Plants are sold to WAPDA and transmitted to the National Grid in the nearby Province of Sindh and mainly its upper region.

In case of oil, it is premature to confirm the quantity of oil in the Jandran region which is located at the confluence of Marri and Khetran Tribal territories.

However, it is believed that it is substantial in quality meeting some demand of oil at the local level following completion of its exploration. According to unofficial reports, Pakistan is producing around 90,000 barrel of crude oil daily within the country while the remaining part is being imported from the friendly countries.

Earlier, there was also big news from the Zain Koh region also in Bugti Tribal Territory where a huge gas reserves had been found years back and the Government had yet to make it public officially.

However, scientists and particularly geologists had confirmed the discovery of huge gas reserves in Zain Koh to this Balochistan Express long ago.

If the information received is verified officially by the Government of Balochistan, then the Government of Pakistan will not be under obligation to buy natural gas from Iran or finalize the deal.

In such a case, Pakistan will not only be self sufficient in production of gas need no imports, particularly Iran or Turkmenistan through TAPI. However, the Government can allow the Iran and Turkmenistan to export the gas to India only with the consent of the Government of Pakistan.

There are very high hopes in the relevant circles that Jandran oil field will also be promising meeting the substantial needs of the country or substantially reducing the oil import bill.

Jandran was the region where the Baloch militants offered tough resistance to the Government efforts to explore and exploit the energy resources on the plea that the Government failed to pay a right price of Sui Gas to the Baloch people.

However, the highly credible security sources at the top were found firm in exploring and exploiting the gas reserves without any substantial resistance from the Baloch militants.

There was a clear message to the people of Balochistan that the Baloch resistance had been squarely broken and it is incapable to offer any resistance to Jandran oil and gas reserves.

It is up to the soft government of Balochistan to make all the necessary arrangements to exploit the precious source of energy for the energy-starved Pakistan.

Pakistan need true democracy and freedom asap

 

[Providence]

Huge is great if it is actually put to work for country and its people ......

Huge ain't great. Great would be a viable extraction cost otherwise it would just be a feel good news !

 

[TOPGUN]

Huge ain't great. Great would be a viable extraction cost otherwise it would just be a feel good news !

You didn't seem to get my point .. never mind its just a feel good news thank you.

 

[YeBeWarned]

We need resources to extract such minerals .. Pakistan is very rich all we need is a Will to do thing and serve people , Inshallah Pakistan will be Prosperous

 

[Hamza913]

Now USA will invade Pakistan..

Don't worry, before we crumble I'm sure we will fire some of our nukes and give the rest to militants.

Subhanallah. I hope to see Pakistan find many more natural resources and use them to their full potential.

 

[NABZ]

Reportedly, after the favourable security environment in these areas, OGDC is working overtime to tap into country's natural resources, hence we often hear the news of such discoveries. If the countries requirements can be fulfilled through local means, there'll be less need to go into risky mega pipeline projects.

OGDCL is trying very hard but is unable to hit any mega reservoir. often it is heard that gas reserves are found and saleable gas turn up to be around 5-7mil. it's not enough for an energy scarce country like Pakistan. other measures are mandatory and this urge of treating gas as a luxury in case of CNG or generators should be stopped or mend.

I heard many times such news but the end result is mostly disappointing. We need some competent companies in this field and competent leadership that understands the science and engineering involved.

Sir, are you saying OGDCL, PPL are not competent companies?

OGDCL, PPL, SNGPL, SSGC should install LNG plants and convert this natural resource into Liquid Natural Gas and then sale it to the general masses through cylinders. LNG is better than LPG. Pakistani distribution companies SNGPL & SSGC are facing severe line losses (UFG) through pipelines in every street of country. These 50 years old pipelines needs billions of dollars for maintenance and control of losses. An easy solution is to provide this gas through cylinders.

Pakistani government can invest few billion dollars to install LNG plants. It will save yearly almost 30 billion Rs which only SNGPL is bearing in terms of UFG. Make LNG cylinders and sell them to end customers. This process will create a larger market and hundreds of thousands of new jobs because currently the distribution departments of SNGPL & SSGC are doing this through their hired pakky & kachay employees. "Gas Chori" will also be ended in the result. Pipelines should be used to serve large industries only which can be managed by SNGPL & SSGC's Transmission departments.

For small industries, a new company can be formed which will sell the gas to small industries. Gas Pipelines are a menace after 50 years. Save this natural resource for our next generations.

In 2011 UFG for SSGCL was 40%. do the maths

Xin block was a disaster. 8 wells drilled and nothing economical was found. FATA has small pockets and due to the overburden pressure their initial production is huge which will eventually decline rapidly.