• Ask govt to take back unprecedented hike in gas tariffs• Production suspension to cause $47m per day export loss KARACHI: Industrialists in the economic nerve centre of Pakistan have announced a complete production shutdown on Monday (Dec 4) to force the caretaker government to reverse the unprecedented hikes in the gas tariffs. They estimate a per day export loss of $47…
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ISLAMABAD: The caretaker government on Wednesday raised the prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by Rs3.83 per kilogram for commercial and domestic consumers for December, citing a rise in the average dollar exchange rate. The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) said in a notification that the LPG prices increased to Rs254.86 per kg from Rs251.03 in November, affecting various…
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ISLAMABAD: State-run Pakistan LNG Ltd (PLL) on Monday awarded a contract to OQ Trading —an Oman subsidy — to deliver an LNG cargo in the second week of January at a post-bidding negotiated price of $17.95 per million British thermal unit (mmBtu) to minimise peak winter gas shortage. Earlier, the PLL had received four international bids against its urgent tender.…
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LAHORE: Chairman Oil Marketing Association of Pakistan (OMAP) Tariq Wazir Ali on Sunday appealed to the Ministry of Petroleum and Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) to reconsider the proposed option of shifting from fortnightly to weekly fuel price adjustments. In a statement issued here, Tariq Wazir Ali said that OMAP believes that such a move will have severe and…
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KARACHI: Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) said on Friday it had started production of oil and gas from a new well in the Pothwar region of Punjab The company, which operates the Adhi Mining Lease with joint venture partners Oil & Gas Development Company Ltd (OGDCL) and Pakistan Oilfield Ltd (POL), said the Adhi South-6 well was drilled to a depth…
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ISLAMABAD: Official data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) shows that gas charges have gone up by 1108.59 percent in the outgoing week of 2023 against the same week last year. The official data of the Sensitive Price Index (SPI) released on Friday shows that gas charges for lower quintile witnessed a hike in prices by 1108.59 percent…
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ISLAMABAD: The fate of Turkmenistan’s demand seeking legislative cover of Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act (FIPPA), 2022 for its investment to be made in Pakistan’s territory, under the trans-nation $10 billion TAPI gas pipeline project, depends upon the legal opinion from the Law Division. The gas pipeline from Turkmenistan has to pass through Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. Turkmenistan will…
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ECC decides to recover local, imported gas price difference from urban consumers ISLAMABAD: Days after burdening gas consumers with an additional Rs400 billion cost, the government on Thursday decided to recover Rs5 billion per month more from them on account of imported gas supply to fertiliser plants at lower rates after the finance ministry refused to provide funds. The Economic…
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ISLAMABAD: Knowing the fact that this time the government will collect revenue of Rs980 billion in the ongoing FY24 on account of the massive hike in gas prices by up to 193 percent, the IMF has still asked the government to further increase the sale price of natural gas from January 1, 2024 to slash the circular debt that currently…
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KARACHI: The government is finalising a proposal to address the concerns of four oil refineries that have not signed upgradation agreements with the energy regulator, sources told The News on Monday. The refineries have raised issues over taxation, arbitration, force majeure and import incentives, which they say are not in line with the Brownfield Refinery Policy announced in August, the…
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