Engro explains its position

M/s Engro has claimed that it had been in discussion with concerned stakeholders on dry docking since October 2019. The company says that government-to-government LNG agreement requires LNG to be delivered in LNG carriers at Port Qasim and limits any other vessel to bring cargoes on FOB basis. Therefore, the original plan to bring a filled FSRU had to be changed, which also increased complexity of the dry-docking activity. Despite this challenge, EETL and Excelerate Energy met the shutdown dates by managing the channel movement of FSRU Excelerate Sequoia to…

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IEA: World Needs ‘Forgotten Giant’ Hydropower For Net-Zero Goals

Hydropower, the “forgotten giant” of low-carbon electricity, will need major policy support to help accelerate the expansion of solar and wind power and put the world on track for net-zero goals, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday. Hydropower currently provides one-sixth of global electricity generation and is the single largest source of low-carbon power—and more than all other renewables combined, the IEA estimates. In 2020, hydropower was the third?largest electricity generation source after coal and natural gas, the Paris-based agency said in its first report on this energy…

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Terminal firm blamed for dry-docking

Ministry of Energy has blamed an LNG terminal operator for installing an old Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) on a new terminal, which has been damaged and has to be shut down for seven days. In a statement, the Ministry of Energy said that a used FSRU was installed by the previous government in March 2015. It was developed in 2009 and was installed in Pakistan after overhauling. A new FSRU needs to be overhauled twice in 15 years. When experts came to Pakistan for the Engro terminal in March 2021…

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Islamabad industry faces power outages after gas suspension: ICCI

The Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ICCI) has shown grave concerns over the gas suspension to industry as well as electricity load shedding, saying these would badly affect industrial productivity and ultimately hurt the overall economy. ICCI President Sardar Yasir Ilyas Khan said that the supply of gas was stopped abruptly to various industries in Islamabad including steel re-rolling mills and steel furnaces, which has badly disturbed their production schedules. He said that supply of gas to industry has been suspended in the peak summer season, which has never…

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CCoE to take stock of power situation today

The country is facing outages of 6-18 hours due to shortfall of about 7500 MW in electricity generation and demand as neither the required RLNG is available nor are there sufficient water releases from Tarbela. Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar has convened a meeting of Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE) on Thursday (today) to review the steps taken by the Ministry of Energy to deal with current energy ‘crisis’ which is attributed to suspension of RLNG supply to three power plants of 4000MW and 3500MW as…

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