Some foreign consultant must have told this gas thing to CCoE in English, otherwise we have been telling this to them since 2015. Still it is not energy efficiency they are striving for but to utilize excess “must run” capacity they have contracted. Unfortunately their thinking is outdated and they would be trading one evil with the other. The increase…
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The launch of the ‘Adapting to Salinity in the Southern Indus Basin (ASSIB’) project, funded by the Australian government through the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), took place at a local hotel in Karachi today by way of a stakeholder inception workshop attended by representatives from government, academia, NGOs, and communities living in salinity-affected areas of Pakistan. The…
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Khalid Mahmood, Managing Director and CEO Getz Pharma Pvt. Ltd Executive Director, IBA Karachi, Dr. S. Akbar Zaidi, signed a joint MoU to provide financial assistance to deserving students. Getz Pharma (Pvt) Ltd, Pakistan’s leading pharmaceutical company and the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi, the country’s prestigious higher education institution, have partnered to establish Getz Pharma Endowment Fund. The…
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Chinese companies are ready to invest $15 billion in Pakistan’s petrochemicals sector in Gwadar, including the project of energy pipeline from Gwadar to China. In this regard, Board of Investment (BOI) Federal Secretary Fareena Mazhar on Sunday said bilateral talks were underway for investment in various projects related to Chinese investment in Pakistan. It was hoped that in the future,…
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Chairman National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) Tauseef H. Farooqi along with other members Rafique Ahmad Shaikh, Engr Maqsood Anwar Khan and CSR consultant, Huma Zafar Sunday visited Gul Ahmed, Master Wind Energy & Tricon Boston Wind Power Plants located in the wind corridor in Jhimpir, District Thatta, Sindh. The visit aimed at observing the level of performance and delivery…
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A day before, Senate Standing Committee on Planning and Development chairman Saleem Mandviwala had stated the Chinese were not satisfied with the pace of work on CPEC and no progress on the portfolio was seen during the last three years. “They (Chinese) are crying… the Chinese ambassador has complained to me that you (PTI government) have destroyed CPEC and no…
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People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right that they hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.” Stephen Covey’s above statement aptly fits the back-and-forth shuttling that is currently going among the NTDC, NEPRA, and the government on the draft Indicative Generation Capacity Expansion Plan (IGCEP). In the…
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LONDON, Sept 13 (Reuters Breakingviews) – Natural gas is having its moment in the sun. The price of the fossil fuel in Europe has risen fivefold since last year, to more than 50 euros per megawatt hour. That has pushed power prices across the continent to their highest in over a decade, and presents both a problem and an opportunity…
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What has triggered the energy market crisis?The UK’s wholesale energy markets have reached record highs in recent weeks. The trouble stems from a global surge in demand for gas following a cold winter that left gas storage facilities depleted, plus a rebound in post-lockdown energy demand across Asia. A race to refill gas stores before the return of colder temperatures…
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This is the final article in a series that examines Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) programs in the oil industry, with an emphasis on how some companies are using hydrogen to improve their metrics. Previous articles were: Today I want to talk about specific examples of how various companies are incorporating hydrogen into their businesses. Alerian on Midstream ESGThe…
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