Year: 2023

GHPL MD appointment criteria raise eyebrows

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oil-and-gas

ISLAMABAD: The Board of Directors (BoD) of Government Holding (Private) Limited (GHPL), the fifth largest oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) company in Pakistan, has established unique criteria for the appointment of a Managing Director. The criteria deviate from conventional norms by reducing the required experience and age by half compared to previous standards and industry counterparts. The company recently issued an advertisement for the position. Curiously, the chairperson of the BoD of GHPL and the current Managing Director, who formulated and approved the criteria for the appointment, have…

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Gas supply to industries restored

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Gas-supply

KARACHI: Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) has decided to restore gas supply to industries and their power generating units, effective from 8:00am on Saturday, June 17, 2023, it said on Friday. According to SSGC, after the change in the direction of Cyclone Biparjoy, weather has improved and the LNG terminals have become operational. Taking this change into consideration, the management of SSGC has decided to restore the supplies to industries and their power generation units. The company had stopped gas supplies to all industries, including their units for power generation,…

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SNGPL gets gas supply from Wali

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gas-supply

LAHORE: Injection of gas supply into SNGPL’s network from a newly discovered gas field namely Wali (Bettani) in District Lakki Marwat of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has started on Friday, a statement said. The Oil and Gas Development Corporation (OGDCL) discovered Wali gas field last year. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Federal Ministry of Energy (Petroleum Division) had directed Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) to lay pipelines for injection of gas from the newly discovered gas field. The gas flow from Wali gas field will be processed at OGDCL’s facility before…

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SBP gets $1bn from China

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Pak-china

KARACHI; The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Friday night announced that it has received $1 billion from China, without sharing any other details about the nature of this inflow. Pakistan reportedly paid $1bn to China last Monday against a reportedly due amount of $1.3bn. Finance Minister Ishaq Dar was hopeful for the return of $1bn. The dwindling foreign exchange reserves and IMF’s reservations about budgetary measures have created problems for the finance minister who recently claimed that the Fund wants to see Pakistan default like Sri Lanka. Despite these serious reservations, Pakistan is…

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KE to refund five paise per unit for April

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power-sector

ISLAMABAD: Rejec­ting K-Electric’s demand for 49 paise per unit increase, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Friday ordered the Karachi-based power utility to refund 5 paise per unit it overcharged consumers in April under monthly fuel cost adjustment (FCA) mechanism. The regulator has decided to allow the negative FCA for April to be reflected in June’s bills, said an order issued by Nepra. The KE had sought to extract Rs740 million from consumers but the regulator worked out a Rs72m refund instead. The cut mainly came from two…

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