Chinese company, M/s CHIC Pak Power Company (Pvt.) Limited (CPPCL) is reportedly unwilling to shift proposed 300-MW power plant at Gwadar from imported coal to Thar coal, sources close to Managing Director PPIB told Business Recorder. CPPCL’s Chairman, Zhao Bo, sources said, has given reference of the latest correspondence/ discussions between two sides regarding the relocation of the 300-MW Gwadar Power…
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Pak-KSA Talks For $10.5bn Mega Refinery Move Forward
Though the visit of Mohammad Bin Salman, the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), has been postponed to the country, the dialogue between Islamabad and Riyadh at ministerial and experts levels has progressed to a reasonable extent for setting up an state-of the-art deep conversion mega refinery of $10.50 billion, one of the officials who were part…
Read MoreEurope’s Multi-Trillion-Euro Energy Derivatives Market Is Under Scrutiny
Europe’s financial authorities are strengthening the oversight of the energy derivative trades used by energy firms to hedge power and gas prices as policymakers look to avoid a spillover effect of the energy crisis into financial markets. In the energy derivative market, worth trillions of euros, energy firms faced more than a trillion euros in margin calls in September, a…
Read MoreRevenue Shortfall May ‘Force’ FBR to Tax Banking Profits as Well
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) may propose new taxation measures including the possibility of taxing banking profits in case it is unable to achieve the assigned revenue collection target of Rs536.53 billion in November 2022. Sources told Business Recorder here on Sunday that the government has no intention o take new taxation measures in near future. However, some proposals…
Read MoreAGP Detects Losses of Over Rs1.191bn in KPRA Accounts
The Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) has detected losses to the tune of Rs 1191.28 million in various heads in the accounts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Revenue Authority (KPRA) during financial year 2018-19 and directed their recovery, said Audit Report on the accounts of Revenue Receipts of the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The audit report has already been presented in the…
Read MoreBusiness Community Hails Gas Rationing for Domestic Consumers
The business community, while hailing decision of natural gas rationing for domestic consumers, urged the government to make this wisdom based verdict a permanent feature throughout the year. They said that fifty percent of total gas in Pakistan is consumed by a household which is one of major hindrance in economic growth of country. A delegation of industrialists and traders…
Read MoreUS Can’t Stop Pak From Purchasing Russian Oil: Minister
The United States cannot stopPakistan from purchasing Russian oil and it will bepossible to do so soon, Pakistan Finance Minister Ishaq Dar He made these remarks while addressing the Pakistan Muslim League -Nawaz (PML-N) workers in Dubai, The Express Tribune newspaper reported. Dar, during his visit to the US last month, had a meeting with the officials of the US…
Read MorePSO’s Liquidity Crisis Puts Pakistan’s LNG Supply in Winter at Risk
ISLAMABAD: State-owned Pakistan State Oil’s (PSO) liquidity crisis has swooped to an all-time high with an unprecedented hike in its receivables to Rs621.168 billion and payables to Rs268.5 billion, The News reported Monday. The situation has resulted in the company being unable to offload its liabilities with regard to letters of credit (LCs) amounting to Rs218.5 billion for the import of furnace…
Read MoreSSGC Halts Gas Supply to Industries in Karachi
Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGC) has halted the supply of gas to industries across Karachi till February 28, 2023. “In adherence to the Ministry of Energy (Petroleum Division) gas load management plan, that places domestic and commercial customers on top of the priority list, it has been decided to suspend gas supply to all general industries from November 15 to…
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