he Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has rejected the government’s decision to suspend gas supplies to industries and the CNG sector in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) from next week, terming it unacceptable for the business community.Lamenting the move, SCCI President Sherbaz Bilour Bilour, while talking to a group of industrialists here at his office on Saturday, called the decision…
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Natural gas prices have doubled this year and are expected to continue to rise, resulting in larger winter heating bills for some consumers and higher costs for electric utilities. Natural gas is plentiful in the United States and has been cheap for years, so the jump in prices this year is eye popping. It has also lifted the shares of…
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Most of the nine Louisiana refineries shut by Hurricane Ida have restarted or were restarting on Friday, nearly two weeks after the powerful storm came ashore, a Reuters survey showed. Refiners are coming back faster than oil production, a reverse of past storm recoveries. Just three of the nine refineries were completely idled, accounting for about 7% of Gulf Coast…
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Sept 10 (Reuters) – U.S. offshore oil companies restored almost 200,000 barrels of production on Friday, while most of the Gulf Coast crude output remained offline following Hurricane Ida, government data showed. The storm hit the U.S. Gulf of Mexico almost two weeks ago, damaging infrastructure and removing more than 21 million barrels of production from the market. Over two-thirds…
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The deemed duty collection in the past for upgradation purposes continues to haunt refineries as the Cabinet Committee on Transport and Logistics (CCoTL) here on Monday directed the Petroleum Division to come up within two days with details of deemed duty on POL products since its imposition on the POL consumers and utilisation of the amount collected in this head.…
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The country is on track to face another gas crisis from 13-16 September, 2021 due to re-deployment of Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) Exquisite after dry dock. A few day ago, the Board of Directors (BoD) of Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGCL) rejected the offer of Engro of a bigger FSRU and asked the company to call its…
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The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Friday increased power tariff by Rs1.3771 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) on account of fuel cost adjustment (FCA) for July 2021. The Central Power Purchasing Agency-Guarantee (CPPA-G) had requested a positive FCA of Rs1.4685/kWh, having impact of Rs22.3 billion. The FCA for July 2021 will be charged in the billing month of September 2021,…
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A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE) has been called on Monday to consider approval of the oil refining policy 2021, cheaper electricity rates to domestic and commercial consumers to encourage incremental consumption for space heating in winter and retention of some old power plants ordered by the federal cabinet. To be presided over by Planning Minister Asad…
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Following the subversive activity by anti-CPEC forces on July 14, Wapda has provided the signature of Pakistan’s regular Army at the Dasu Hydropower project’s site and upgraded its security apparatus up to the satisfaction of Chinese government, but even after almost two months, China’s Gezhouba Group Corporation (CGGC) has not started construction work, which is questionable. Gezhouba also suspended its…
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This process will lead to closure of CNG, cement and non-export industry (general industry and its captive power plants) across the country for three days from September 13-15. However, with the arrival of old FSRU Exquisite, the ramp up process will continue till the midnight of September 15 and the LNG terminal will fully come on stream on September 16…
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