An oil and gas exploration firm has doubled gas supply from a field located in Sindh and aided some reduction in the fuel import bill at a time when Pakistan’s economy is melting primarily due to the energy and import crisis.
Mari Petroleum Company Limited reported to the Pakistan Stock Exchange on Thursday that it had completed construction activities and the phased commissioning and performance testing of gas processing facilities at the Sachal Gas Processing Complex phase-II located in Deharki, Sindh. The company, however, reported recently that its exploration activities were proceeding slowly amid the re-emergence of security threats to its staff in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
About six weeks ago, in January 2023, the company announced that it had begun supplying 47.5 mmscfd from the phase-II project.
In its financial statement for the three months ended September 30, 2022, the exploration firm said that SGPC phase-I was commissioned in the previous year. “Phase-II will process 200 mmscfd of Goru-B gas.”
