Month: January 2021

PESHAWAR – Pakistan’s US and France based real estate assets are at risk of confiscation as a United Kingdom court moves to enforce an arbitration tribunal decree that fined it US$5.9 billion for retracting a 28-year old gold exploration contract with foreign mining companies. This month, a British Virgin Islands’ court-ordered to establish a value on the Roosevelt Hotel in New York and the Scribe Hotel in Paris as part of an attachment process of the properties owned by Pakistan International Airlines Investment Ltd (PIAIL), a state-run company officially registered…

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Dubai — The UAE’s juggling of energy transition and plans to eke out more profit from oil and gas projects has left it trying to secure a role in future crude demand scenarios while appeasing investors looking to combat climate change. As OPEC’s third largest producer, the UAE has commitments as a member of the alliance but it is also pursuing its own agenda to speed up production of oil reserves before peak demand becomes a reality. Abu Dhabi National Oil Co, the UAE’s biggest energy producer, is accelerating exploration and…

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ISLAMABAD: Amid the impending LNG availability crisis in February, 2021 on account of backing out by UAE based LNG supplier (ENOC) of its commitment to provide an LNG vessel next month, the top management of Jamshoro Joint Venture Limited (JJVL) has asked the Petroleum Division (PD) to comply with the ECC decision by letting its LPG extraction plant resume operation. “Once JJVL’s LPG extraction plants comes on stream, it will start catering to the energy needs of over 750,000 homes across Pakistan. And this will also help contain the increasing…

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ISLAMABAD: After increasing POL prices twice this month, the government is now all set to explode the power tariff bomb on the masses in the current week, as Power Division has prepared a summary seeking the ECC approval for increase in the new base tariff by Rs1.90 per unit setting new base tariff at Rs15.25 per unit, well-placed sources at Energy Ministry told The News. “The existing base tariff of electricity power distribution companies (DISCOs) stands at Rs13.35 per.” However, they said, the government is likely to notify today (Monday)…

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