2024-04-23 12:24:46
Islamabad: There has been a relief news for the people of Pakistan who are continuously suffering from shortage of natural gas. The country’s Mari Petroleum Company Limited (MPCL) on Monday announced the discovery of significant oil and gas reserves in Sindh‘s Daharki district. The Shawal-1 well, drilled in January 2024, reached a total depth of 1,136 metres, the company said. This well is producing 1,040 barrels of oil and 2.5 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.
MPCL CEO Faheem Haider considered this success as a milestone for all the geologists and engineers who used the latest technologies in geo-earth exploration. This latest success follows MPCL’s January 2024 gas discovery in the North Waziristan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The Sheva-2 appraisal-cum-exploration well demonstrated a steady flow of gas maintaining a flow rate of 0.607 million cubic feet.
Earlier, the country’s state-owned petroleum giant Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) had announced the discovery of substantial natural gas reserves in Sindh’s Sajawal district in November 2023. According to Express News, the breakthrough came after PPL conducted a drilling campaign to a depth of 2,545 meters at Shah Bunder in the Jhum East forest location.
Initial testing showed promising results, with wellhead flow pressure recorded at 13.69 million standard cubic feet and potential daily production of 236 barrels. The ongoing drilling, under the supervision of experts, aims to investigate and exploit the full potential of this new resource.