300MW Gwadar plant: CPPCL unwilling to shift to Thar coal

Chinese company, M/s CHIC Pak Power Company (Pvt.) Limited (CPPCL) is reportedly unwilling to shift proposed 300-MW power plant at Gwadar from imported coal to Thar coal, sources close to Managing Director PPIB told Business Recorder. CPPCL’s Chairman, Zhao Bo, sources said, has given reference of the latest correspondence/ discussions between two sides regarding the relocation of the 300-MW Gwadar Power…

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Europe’s Multi-Trillion-Euro Energy Derivatives Market Is Under Scrutiny

Europe’s financial authorities are strengthening the oversight of the energy derivative trades used by energy firms to hedge power and gas prices as policymakers look to avoid a spillover effect of the energy crisis into financial markets. In the energy derivative market, worth trillions of euros, energy firms faced more than a trillion euros in margin calls in September, a…

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Revenue Shortfall May ‘Force’ FBR to Tax Banking Profits as Well

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) may propose new taxation measures including the possibility of taxing banking profits in case it is unable to achieve the assigned revenue collection target of Rs536.53 billion in November 2022. Sources told Business Recorder here on Sunday that the government has no intention o take new taxation measures in near future. However, some proposals…

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Business Community Hails Gas Rationing for Domestic Consumers

The business community, while hailing decision of natural gas rationing for domestic consumers, urged the government to make this wisdom based verdict a permanent feature throughout the year. They said that fifty percent of total gas in Pakistan is consumed by a household which is one of major hindrance in economic growth of country. A delegation of industrialists and traders…

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PSO’s Liquidity Crisis Puts Pakistan’s LNG Supply in Winter at Risk

ISLAMABAD: State-owned Pakistan State Oil’s (PSO) liquidity crisis has swooped to an all-time high with an unprecedented hike in its receivables to Rs621.168 billion and payables to Rs268.5 billion, The News reported Monday. The situation has resulted in the company being unable to offload its liabilities with regard to letters of credit (LCs) amounting to Rs218.5 billion for the import of furnace…

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