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KARACHI: Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) has initiated forensic technical, commercial, and management audit of the two gas companies to determine actual unaccounted for gas (UFG) losses for indigenous as well as regasified liquefied natural gas (RLNG), separately in transmission and distribution system, an official said on Friday. Imran Ghaznavi, the spokesperson for the OGRA confirmed the audit for both supplies on monthly and yearly basis for fiscal years 2014-15 to 2019-20 along with verification of diversion of RLNG volume by Sui Northern Gas Pipelines (SNGPL) to domestic and…

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Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday said that by 2030, 60 per cent of all energy produced in the country will be “clean” and through renewable resources. “Thirty per cent of all the country’s vehicles will use electricity,” he added. The premier made the remarks while speaking at the Climate Ambition Summit 2020. According to the Prime Minister’s Office, the summit was a high-level virtual event held on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Paris agreement on climate change. PM Imran started his address by stating that Pakistan…

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In the first part, we observed that NTDC’s IGCEP2047 envisages addition of 50 GW of new capacity in the grid by 2030, with investments to top over USD 70 billion. For a country already sinking under foreign loans and where electricity prices have risen beyond the affordability of most consumers, this should be a cause for serious concern. We must explore every option and avail every opportunity to minimize future capacity needs without compromising country’s aspirations for development and consumers’ capacity to pay. With this objective, we re-examine below, the…

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PESHAWAR, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 10th Dec, 2020 ) :Board of Directors (BoD) of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organizations (Pedo) on Thursday decided to supply 148 Megawatt more electricity to industrial sector of the province on subsidized rates. The board which met under the chairmanship of the adviser to the Chief Minister on Energy also decided to soon appoint project directors for the 300 MW power Balakot and 69 MW Lavi Hydropower projects after selecting suitable candidates. The board also granted approval for promotion to next grade of different categories’ officers and low grade employees…

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ISLAMABAD: For the first time in Pakistan’s history, the government is set to face a huge LNG debacle in January, 2021 as LNG supplier companies. have not submitted bids for three earlier time slots till January 18. The development came to the fore when bids of spot cargoes were opened on Thursday for early part of January 2021 after bids for six LNG cargoes were sought. For the first time ever, the international LNG suppliers didn’t offer bids for the time slots of January 8-11, 2021, January 12-14 and January…

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