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The new Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Power, Tabish Gauhar, has recently made public his roadmap for resolving the major issues of the country’s power sector. It’s a welcome step asit reflects his keen and objectivedesire towards handling these serious issues. His insight and grasp on these issues and his ideas to resolve them also come as a breath of fresh air as the nation has been getting tired of hearing the oft-repeated and run-of-the-mill solutions focusing mainly on reducing losses and improving revenue recovery in the DISCOs.…

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ISLAMABAD: Independent Power Producers (IPPs) Tuesday reportedly refused to accept federal government’s proposed payment of Rs400 billion in three years, terming it as violation of already signed Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs), well-informed sources told Business Recorder. The government’s team comprising Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Power, Tabish Gohar, Federal Land Commission Chairman Babar Yaqoob Fateh Muhammad Secretary Power, Ali Raza Bhutta, officials of ISI, Acting CEO CPPA-G, CFO and other legal experts of the CPPA-G, held discussions with IPPs established under Power Policies 1994 and 2002. The government’s…

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The Mari Petroleum Company Limited (MPCL) has entered into a joint venture arrangement with a number of companies to undertake potential mining projects in the Province of Balochistan. As per the company, MPCL has entered into an agreement with Y.B. Pakistan Limited, Arif Habib Equity (Private) Limited, Liberty Mills Limited, and Reliance Commodities (Private) Limited pertaining to a joint venture arrangement through a company (National Resources (Private) Limited (NRL)) to potentially undertake mineral mining projects in the Province of Balochistan. “These projects will involve, inter alia, exploration, survey, extraction, excavation,…

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A total of 37 percent of oil and gas companies in Canada resorted to permanent layoffs due to the pandemic-driven oil price and oil demand slump, a recent survey of energy labor market organization PetroLMI showed. The energy firms in Canada launched measures to reduce labor costs across their organizations, according to the survey of energy workers and executives carried out by PetroLMI, a division of Energy Safety Canada. At the time of the survey in August and September, 68 percent of energy workers said their company had implemented at…

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Global investors managing nearly $7tn (£5.2bn) of assets plan to almost double their spending on renewable energy infrastructure over the next five years amid deepening concerns over the fossil fuel industry’s climate plans, according to a report. A survey of institutional investors found that they are planning to increase their renewable energy investments from 4.2% of their overall portfolio to 8.3% in the next five years and 10.8% within the next decade to about $742.5bn. The survey of more than 100 investors, representing $6.9tn of assets under management, found that…

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