Firms exploring oil, gas in K-P, Balochistan to get wellhead price
\nISLAMABAD
\nThe Council of Common Interests (CCI) on Monday approved amendments proposed by the Petroleum Division in the Petroleum Policy 2012 with a view to encourage exploration of new reserves of oil and gas.
\nCaretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar was chairing the 51st meeting of the CCI.
\nUnder the amendment in the petroleum policy, the gas exploration companies would be allowed to work with their present licences in search of oil and gas reserves.
\nThe CCI also approved the recommendation of Petroleum Division to give better wellhead price to the oil and gas companies in the 1(F) petroleum zone. The exploration of oil and gas reserves in the 1(F) zone was a difficult and expensive process due to difficult terrain and lack of facilities in the southern border areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
\nThe council approved the activation of leases for oil and gas till economic viability of the reservoirs. It also approved the draft of Exploration and Production Policy 2024 of Tight Gas.
\nThe policy contained details regarding prices of tight gas, incentives for promotion of exploration, and regulatory framework for its usage.
\nTight gas was a kind of natural gas reservoir that could not be extracted with usual means and the gas wells are drilled with more than usual hydraulic pressure and with expensive equipment and technology.
\nThe meeting was told that according to a conservative estimate, 35 trillion cubic feet of tight gas reserves were available in the country.
\nAs per amendments in the new policy, the CCI approved increase in the rate for the sale of natural gas to the third party on a commercial basis from 10 percent to 35 percent, which would help in reduction of the circular debt.
\nThe caretaker federal ministers for finance, privatization, law and justice, four provincial chief ministers and high-level officials attended the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Firms exploring oil, gas in K-P, Balochistan to get wellhead price ISLAMABAD The Council of Common Interests (CCI) on Monday approved amendments proposed by the Petroleum Division in the Petroleum Policy 2012 with a view to encourage exploration of new reserves of oil and gas. Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar was chairing the 51st […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-384253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"\n