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The Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDCL) has announced the launch of its National Talent Hunt Scholarship Programme Batch-2023 in collaboration with the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi for deserving but talented students from OGDCL’s operational areas. Under the OGDCL-IBA Talent Hunt Programme selected students will get two months’ training in orientation programme at the IBA, Karachi. The programme will provide an opportunity and guidance to students from selected districts to secure admission to a four-year undergraduate degree programme at the IBA, Karachi. IBA Karachi has started accepting application…

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State Minister for Energy (Petroleum Division) Musadik Malik on Thursday reiterated that there is no shortage of petroleum products in the country, and the government will strictly deal with those hoarding petrol and diesel. Addressing media persons amid a reported shortage of petroleum products in Punjab, the minister said that since Wednesday over 900 inspections were carried out in various districts of Punjab – 530 in Sargodha district and 430 in Faisalabad district – with hoarders penalised and a number of petrol pumps sealed. “Similarly, a number of inspection operations…

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Pakistan’s energy imports – petroleum, LNG, LPG, and coal-stood at $25 billion in the last fiscal year. Within it, the share of transport is the highest while its efficiency in usage is woefully low. This is not sustainable and has to change. In the medium to long term, the focus has to shift on indigenous energy resources, including renewables, to produce electricity, and by using primary energy sources efficiently. Transportation, especially public and logistic transport, must slowly move towards electric. The good news is that upcoming projects in the IGCEP…

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he Sindh government and the Asian development bank (ADB) have agreed to collaborate to procure another fleet of Electrical Vehicles to include them in the Peoples Bus Service already operating in Karachi.This emerged in a meeting between Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and the ADB delegation led by its Country Director Mr. Yong Ye. The other delegation members were Unit Head, Project Administration Mr. Dinesh R. Shiwakoti, Unit Head Urban, Water & Emergency Assistance Mr. Mian Shaukat Shafi, Senior Climate Change Specialist Mr. Nathan Rive and Senior Portfolio…

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ISLAMABAD: Qatar has reportedly agreed to consider Pakistan’s offer to buy shares/ stakes of Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) and Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) and sell Mirage-2000 fighter aircrafts to Pakistan. This was revealed at a recent inter-ministerial meeting presided over by Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Coordination, Syed Tariq Fatemi as a follow up of Prime Minister’s visit to Qatar on 22-23 August 2022. The Finance Minister during his recent visit to Qatar offered the Qatari side to buy stakes/ shares of OGDCL and PPL. The…

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