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Kohlu, Dera Bugti: OGDCL all set to kick-start exploration activities
November 27, 2013
ABDUL RASHEED AZAD
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State owned Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDCL) is all set to kick-start exploration activities in Kohlu and Dera Bugti where as per estimates oil/gas reservoirs stand at over 22 trillion cubic feet (TCF). Managing Director (MD) OGDCL Riaz Khan said this while talking to Business Recorder here on Tuesday, on the sidelines of Annual Technical Conference (ATC) organised by OGDCL in collaboration with the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and Association of Pakistan Geoscientists.
To deal with the energy crisis on long-term basis, the government was taking all possible steps and for that purpose OGDCL was to start exploration and development work in Kohlu, Balochistan, where as per rough estimates natural gas reservoirs stood at over 22 TCF, he added.
He said OGDCL had constructed an 80-kilometer long road which connected Kup -a far-flung area of Kohlu- with the main highway. The area has a huge potentially recoverable oil/gas reservoirs and OGDCL is ready to start exploration activities there. Pakistan currently has total proven reserves of about 27 TCF, Shale Gas Reservoirs stand at 586 TCF, while tight and other low BTU gas reservoirs stand at 51 TCF.
He also said that within a year, OGDCL was likely to add some 500 million cubic feet per day (MMCFD) of gas into the system. "The Kohlu exploration block, spread over 2,500 square kilometres, possesses estimated reserves of about 22 TCF. According to preliminary estimates, more than 15.4 TCF reserves are described as 'recoverable'," Riaz added. Earlier, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Resources Jam Kamal Khan addressing the participants said the government was taking all possible measures to resolve energy crisis.
He said that on short-term basis, the government was to start import of LNG and on long-term basis working out a plan to explore shale gas/oil in the country and according to US Energy Information Administration (EIA) shale gas stands at 586 TCF, while there are over nine billion barrels of shale oil in the country.
Lieutenant General Raza Muhammad Khan (Retd), Managing Director Mari Petroleum Company Limited (MPL), said the company had recently started additional exploration and developmental operations in Mari gas field and Ziarat Balochistan. The minister said the government was pursuing a vibrant and investment-friendly policy to attract more investment for the oil and gas sector, adding the country had a potential and rich in natural resources and it needed a commitment and dedication to explore those resources for meeting the energy requirements.
He said success ratio in oil and gas sector was highly encouraging and the government would facilitate the investors to give boost to exploration activities in oil and gas sector. Replying to a question regarding Pak-Iran gas pipeline project, the minister said Iran's deal with world powers would had positive impacts on the project and dispelled the impression that Pak-Iran gas pipelines project had been suspended under external pressure, saying that government's record testified that it never retracted on its commitments and continued with its projects, accordingly including the project in question.
Dr M Saeed Khan Jadoon, Director OGDCL Institute of Science and Technology, and chairman of the conference expressed his gratitude to all the representatives of Exploration and Production (E&P) companies and services providers for the financial and technical support for organising the conference. He said the last year's ATC's on "E&P Technology, Innovation and New Frontier" was a great success.
He expressed the hope the forum would provide excellent opportunity to academia to directly interact with industry and discuss the prevailing technical issues and problems thus finding solutions for many issues. More than 1,000 delegates from different national as well as international E&P companies, service provider and academia are participating in the conference to discuss topics related to energy industry.
Kohlu, Dera Bugti: OGDCL all set to kick-start exploration activities | Business Recorder
a similar news of 2007
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Khalid Mustafa
Monday, February 26, 2007
From Print Edition
ISLAMABAD: The government has kicked off an effective modus operandi to tap Pakistan’s biggest gas reserves of about 22 trillion cubic feet (tcf) in the Kohlu district of Balochistan. The reserves have the potential commercial value of $110 billion and realistic value of $77 billion. It can last for 100 years.
“We are currently making a strategy for initiating the gas exploration in district Kohlu keeping in view the expected tough resistance from the armed followers of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti,” a senior government official told The News.
“The US based-Occidental Petroleum Corporation prepared a seismic report of Kohlu district at Dera Bugti at the cost of $20 million in 1992-93 and confided to the then government that the said area has the potential of gas reserves of 22 trillion cubic feet, which is enough for the next 100 years. But tension between Nawab Akber Bugti and the then regime had led to the stoppage of the initiation of exploration activities.
Out of the 22 tcf, the official said, 15 tcf gas reserves are easily recoverable. Kohlu district is located some 20km from Sui, where some 50 years back gas reserves of 8 tcf were discovered.
Pakistan has so far utilised 5 tcf of gas reserves of the Sui gas field in 50 years while 5 tcf gas reserves are yet to be utilised. Because of the tension between Nawab Akbar Bugti and the present regime also over the exploration of gas, the government could not launch exportation activities in 2005, despite the fact an exploration license was given to the OGDCL on December 29, 2004 of Block No 2968-3 of Kohlu covering an area of 2459.11 sq km, located in Kohlu and Dera Bugti agencies, district Barkhan of Balochistan. The block falls in the prospective Zone-II, Kohlu. This is a joint venture of the OGDCL and MGCL with following working interest shares: OGDCL: 60 per cent (Operator) and MGCL: 40 per cent.
The official said the Kohlu field could be brought into working in a short span of two years. With a view to materialise the project, a meeting of the Central Development Working Party (CDWP) scheduled for tomorrow (Tuesday) is all set to approve the project of oil and gas exploration in Balochistan — opening of activities in the tribal areas of worth Rs 763.43 million.
Under the project, 12 road schemes, 11 water supply schemes, village electrification with the upgrading of the Boys Inter college would be completed and one basic health unit would also be established in the Kohlu field. The prospects of discovery of the oil and gas in Balochistan are extremely promising.
However, the exploration activities could not be started at the desired pace due to security reasons. It has, therefore, been proposed to get the cooperation of the locals of the area as well as improve the law and order and security arrangements by implementation schemes in the social sector.
November 27, 2013
ABDUL RASHEED AZAD
0 Comments
State owned Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDCL) is all set to kick-start exploration activities in Kohlu and Dera Bugti where as per estimates oil/gas reservoirs stand at over 22 trillion cubic feet (TCF). Managing Director (MD) OGDCL Riaz Khan said this while talking to Business Recorder here on Tuesday, on the sidelines of Annual Technical Conference (ATC) organised by OGDCL in collaboration with the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and Association of Pakistan Geoscientists.
To deal with the energy crisis on long-term basis, the government was taking all possible steps and for that purpose OGDCL was to start exploration and development work in Kohlu, Balochistan, where as per rough estimates natural gas reservoirs stood at over 22 TCF, he added.
He said OGDCL had constructed an 80-kilometer long road which connected Kup -a far-flung area of Kohlu- with the main highway. The area has a huge potentially recoverable oil/gas reservoirs and OGDCL is ready to start exploration activities there. Pakistan currently has total proven reserves of about 27 TCF, Shale Gas Reservoirs stand at 586 TCF, while tight and other low BTU gas reservoirs stand at 51 TCF.
He also said that within a year, OGDCL was likely to add some 500 million cubic feet per day (MMCFD) of gas into the system. "The Kohlu exploration block, spread over 2,500 square kilometres, possesses estimated reserves of about 22 TCF. According to preliminary estimates, more than 15.4 TCF reserves are described as 'recoverable'," Riaz added. Earlier, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Resources Jam Kamal Khan addressing the participants said the government was taking all possible measures to resolve energy crisis.
He said that on short-term basis, the government was to start import of LNG and on long-term basis working out a plan to explore shale gas/oil in the country and according to US Energy Information Administration (EIA) shale gas stands at 586 TCF, while there are over nine billion barrels of shale oil in the country.
Lieutenant General Raza Muhammad Khan (Retd), Managing Director Mari Petroleum Company Limited (MPL), said the company had recently started additional exploration and developmental operations in Mari gas field and Ziarat Balochistan. The minister said the government was pursuing a vibrant and investment-friendly policy to attract more investment for the oil and gas sector, adding the country had a potential and rich in natural resources and it needed a commitment and dedication to explore those resources for meeting the energy requirements.
He said success ratio in oil and gas sector was highly encouraging and the government would facilitate the investors to give boost to exploration activities in oil and gas sector. Replying to a question regarding Pak-Iran gas pipeline project, the minister said Iran's deal with world powers would had positive impacts on the project and dispelled the impression that Pak-Iran gas pipelines project had been suspended under external pressure, saying that government's record testified that it never retracted on its commitments and continued with its projects, accordingly including the project in question.
Dr M Saeed Khan Jadoon, Director OGDCL Institute of Science and Technology, and chairman of the conference expressed his gratitude to all the representatives of Exploration and Production (E&P) companies and services providers for the financial and technical support for organising the conference. He said the last year's ATC's on "E&P Technology, Innovation and New Frontier" was a great success.
He expressed the hope the forum would provide excellent opportunity to academia to directly interact with industry and discuss the prevailing technical issues and problems thus finding solutions for many issues. More than 1,000 delegates from different national as well as international E&P companies, service provider and academia are participating in the conference to discuss topics related to energy industry.
Kohlu, Dera Bugti: OGDCL all set to kick-start exploration activities | Business Recorder
a similar news of 2007
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Khalid Mustafa
Monday, February 26, 2007
From Print Edition
ISLAMABAD: The government has kicked off an effective modus operandi to tap Pakistan’s biggest gas reserves of about 22 trillion cubic feet (tcf) in the Kohlu district of Balochistan. The reserves have the potential commercial value of $110 billion and realistic value of $77 billion. It can last for 100 years.
“We are currently making a strategy for initiating the gas exploration in district Kohlu keeping in view the expected tough resistance from the armed followers of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti,” a senior government official told The News.
“The US based-Occidental Petroleum Corporation prepared a seismic report of Kohlu district at Dera Bugti at the cost of $20 million in 1992-93 and confided to the then government that the said area has the potential of gas reserves of 22 trillion cubic feet, which is enough for the next 100 years. But tension between Nawab Akber Bugti and the then regime had led to the stoppage of the initiation of exploration activities.
Out of the 22 tcf, the official said, 15 tcf gas reserves are easily recoverable. Kohlu district is located some 20km from Sui, where some 50 years back gas reserves of 8 tcf were discovered.
Pakistan has so far utilised 5 tcf of gas reserves of the Sui gas field in 50 years while 5 tcf gas reserves are yet to be utilised. Because of the tension between Nawab Akbar Bugti and the present regime also over the exploration of gas, the government could not launch exportation activities in 2005, despite the fact an exploration license was given to the OGDCL on December 29, 2004 of Block No 2968-3 of Kohlu covering an area of 2459.11 sq km, located in Kohlu and Dera Bugti agencies, district Barkhan of Balochistan. The block falls in the prospective Zone-II, Kohlu. This is a joint venture of the OGDCL and MGCL with following working interest shares: OGDCL: 60 per cent (Operator) and MGCL: 40 per cent.
The official said the Kohlu field could be brought into working in a short span of two years. With a view to materialise the project, a meeting of the Central Development Working Party (CDWP) scheduled for tomorrow (Tuesday) is all set to approve the project of oil and gas exploration in Balochistan — opening of activities in the tribal areas of worth Rs 763.43 million.
Under the project, 12 road schemes, 11 water supply schemes, village electrification with the upgrading of the Boys Inter college would be completed and one basic health unit would also be established in the Kohlu field. The prospects of discovery of the oil and gas in Balochistan are extremely promising.
However, the exploration activities could not be started at the desired pace due to security reasons. It has, therefore, been proposed to get the cooperation of the locals of the area as well as improve the law and order and security arrangements by implementation schemes in the social sector.
