Day: January 10, 2020

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Karachi Electric (KE), Moonis Alvi on Thursday said that the power utility’s unpaid receivables are a serious threat to investments in power projects in Karachi. Talking exclusively with Business Recorder, he said that K-Electric has launched an appeal for the recovery of dues of more than Rs 50 billion, pending with the government of Sindh (GoS) and other provincial entities. The appeal has been made in the interest of the city of Karachi as the stuck-up receivables pose a serious threat to continuity and reliability of…

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Provincial Minister of Local bodies Sindh, Nasir Hussain Shah, has assured industrialists of his help taking up the issue of gas outage in industrial areas of the city with the federal government. Speaking at a meeting of Korangi Association of Trade & Industry (KATI), he said that many of projects to improve connectivity would be start soon. He said that a 4-lane bridge from Korangi Causeway to Crossing would be built soon. Shah further said that industry is our first priority as per directions of the party leadership. He said…

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Byco Petroleum Pakistan Limited is celebrating its Silver Jubilee. Byco was founded on 9 January 1995, and has become Pakistan’s largest oil refining company by installed capacity in the past quarter century. Byco has made untiring efforts to serve the nation and to achieve its mission of becoming Pakistan’s premier Oil Company despite facing serious obstacles in its path. Byco’s CEO, Amir Abbasi, remarked on Byco’s Silver Jubilee: “On 9 January 1995, my father, Parvez Abbasi, and I founded this company with the vision to make Pakistan self-sufficient in energy…

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Sindh Government on Thursday rejected any attempt of Federal Government to work out natural gas tariff by including RLNG into existing Weighted Average Cost of Gas (WACoG). This clear message has been sent by Chief Minister, Sindh, in a letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan in reaction to a recent media briefing by the Prime Minister’s special Assistant on Petroleum, Nadeem Babar. While citing Prime Minister’s Advisor on Petroleum Nadeem Babar, in a press briefing, in which he claimed that in the last CCI meeting Chief Minister Sindh had agreed…

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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 10 January 2020 — More than 1,500 delegates and high-level participants including prime ministers, ministers, heads of international and regional organisations together with leaders from financial institutions and private sector entities will gather in Abu Dhabi tomorrow for the Tenth Session of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Assembly. The decision makers will come together to accelerate the uptake of renewable energy and advance the global energy transformation. “As the lead intergovernmental agency for the energy transformation, IRENA and its Assembly, will endeavor to set in motion a decade…

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