Plan devised for water supply to Thar Coal Power Project

A high-level meeting was held at the Sindh Energy Department office on Wednesday to finalize the plan. The meeting was attended by Sindh Energy Minister Imtiaz Ahmed Sheikh, Sindh Irrigation Minister Sohail Anwar Sial, Sindh Chief Minister’s Legal Adviser Barrister Murtaza Wahab, Sindh Finance Secretary Hassan Naqvi, Energy Secretary Tariq Ali Shah, Special Secretary Irrigation and other concerned officials.  Officials from Electric and other power generation companies attended. The meeting also gave a detailed briefing on the Irrigation Department’s project for water supply for Thar Coal Power Project and finalized…

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US mines produced $82.3 billion in minerals in 2020 – report

US mines produced approximately $82.3 billion in minerals in 2020— about $1.5 billion lower than the 2019 revised total of $83.7 billion, the U.S. Geological Survey announced. The $82.3 billion worth of nonfuel minerals produced by U.S. mines in 2020 is for all nonfuel mineral commodity production, USGS found, including industrial minerals and natural aggregates as well as ferrous and nonferrous metals. SIGN UP FOR THE COPPER DIGEST Sign Up The estimated value of U.S. production of industrial minerals in 2020 was $54.6 billion, about 4% less than that of…

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Oil & Gas Upstream Activities Global Market Report 2021: COVID 19 Impact and Recovery to 2030

Major companies in the oil and gas upstream activities market include Saudi Aramco; Rosneft; Kuwait Petroleum Corporation; ADNOC and Iraq Ministry of Oil. The global oil & gas upstream activities market is expected to grow from $2635.45 billion in 2020 to $3335.52 billion in 2021 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.6%. The growth is mainly due to the companies rearranging their operations and recovering from the COVID-19 impact, which had earlier led to restrictive containment measures involving social distancing, remote working, and the closure of commercial activities…

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SEPA displeased at flouting of green laws

The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) has expressed its disapproval of the car and cement manufacturing plants over non-compliance with green laws and in this regard the authority has also fixed separate hearings to inquire about the position of companies. SEPA Director General Naeem Ahmed Mughal visited different automobile industrial units on Tuesday, including that of Kia Motors and Master Motors, to inspect whether their operations were consistent with the Sindh Environmental Protection Act 2014 and its rules. According to a statement issued by a spokesperson for the Environment, Climate…

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Allocation of existing pipeline capacity: Move to create monopoly of two private LNG terminals gets scuttled

ISLAMABAD: The move by the Maritime Affairs Division (MAD) for creating a monopoly of two private LNG terminals, which are not yet visible on the ground, on the existing pipeline capacity has got scuttled as a sub-committee on the issue, headed by Asad Umar, has clearly opposed the move, saying the concessions proposed to the original terms of the provisional LoI (Letter of Intent) and project guidelines are meant to favoring the two companies, Tabeer and Energas that could leave other players in the market high and dry. The concessions…

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