The United Arab Emirates is continuing to diversify its economy & energy resources away from oil, by investing in natural gas and renewables. The country has ambitions to become self-sufficient in gas supply by 2030. Earlier this year, a natural gas reservoir found between the emirates of Abu Dhabi and Dubai became the world’s largest discovery of its kind in…
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Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) has carried out 3,407 L-KMs 2D and 1,324 Sq. KMs 3D seismic surveys in its various operational areas during the last fiscal year aimed at expediting hydrocarbon exploration activities and making the country self-reliant in the energy sector. “Moreover, around 5,582 Line Kilometers (L-KMs) of 2D and 4,977 Square Kilometers (Sq. KMS) of…
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The government has taken two major steps with remarkable degree of success – report on independent power producers (IPPs) and the follow-up agreement which will reduce power generation costs by a whopping Rs1 trillion over the next 10 to 20 years, provided all generation companies including government and CPEC ones are included. If implemented finally, it would be a major…
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(NAB) was established in 1999 as Pakistan’s apex anti-corruption organisation which operates under National Accountability Ordinance-1999 which is extended to whole of Pakistan including Fata and Gilgit-Baltistan. NAB has its Headquarter in Islamabad and it has eight regional offices located at Rawalpindi/Islamabad, Lahore, Multan, Sukkur, Quetta, Peshawar, Karachi and Gilgit Baltistan. NAB under the present leadership of honourable Mr. Justice…
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ISLAMABAD, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 4th Oct, 2020 ) :Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) has carried out 3,407 L-KMs 2D and 1,324 Sq. KMs 3D seismic surveys in its various operational areas during the last fiscal year aimed at expediting hydrocarbon exploration activities and making the country self-reliant in the energy sector. “Moreover, around…
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The world bank has shown that Pakistan is improving in the energy sector by approving 450m to support the country. As we know in Pakistan ,many resources could be used to benefit her;such as gold,natural gas, desial etc… The indicative generation capacity expansion plan 2047 which was prepared by NTDC to focus on coal, ignore the power technology and that…
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In 2015, India and Pakistan experienced heatwave conditions that ended up killing over 3,600 people in just three months. Now, research suggests this could become the new normal. If average world temperatures increase by between 1.5ºC and 2°C, potentially deadly heatwaves are likely to substantially increase (pdf) in frequency, and those similar to the one in 2015 could become an…
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HUBCO is the only power producer in Pakistan with four projects listed in the CPEC, namely imported coal-based China Power Hub Generation Company (Private) Limited (CPHGC) at Hub, Thar Energy Limited (TEL) and ThalNova Power Thar (Pvt.) Ltd. and Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC) at Thar Coal Block II. Pakistan’s largest Independent Power Producer (IPP), Hub Power Company Limited…
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New research published this week by the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has highlighted the “untapped potential” of combining floating solar PV projects and hydropower plants. According to the NREL’s research, hybrid systems combining floating solar panels and hydropower plants may hold the “technical potential” to produce a “significant portion” of the necessary electricity generated across…
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Europe must not repeat the same mistakes it made with solar manufacturing in the emerging hydrogen sector, the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned. A string of European research institutes and pioneering companies developed much of the technology still in use in PV panels today. But as solar began to scale in multiple international markets, coordinated…
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