Huge oil, gas reserves found in Balochistan
- December 27, 2016, 9:14 pm
- National News
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QUETTA Dec 26 (PPI): A huge reserve of oil and gas has been found in Jandran area of Marri Agency of Balochistan. These gas reserves are said to be much bigger than gas found in Sui Dera Bugti in early1950.
Well placed sources confirmed that gas reserve found in Jandran region is much bigger than gas found in Sui.
Gas reserves from Sui first and followed by two other big reserves at Pir Koh and Loti fed the whole country and met its energy requirements for more than six decades.
Sui gas was main cause of industrial revolution in Pakistan mainly in Karachi and Central Punjab where gas replaced oil as an energy substitute.
The fourth gas reserve was also found in Bugti tribal territory in Uch Mountains and the gas is being used by private concern producing electricity in bulk at the two Uch Power Plants near Dera Murad Jamali in Naseerabad.
The electricity produced at Uch Power Plant is sold to WAPDA and transmitted to National Grid in nearby province of Sindh and mainly its upper region.
In case of oil it is premature to confirm its quantity which is located at the confluence of Marri and Khetran Tribal Territories.
It is however believed that it is substantial in quality meeting some demand of oil t the local level following completion of its exploration.
According to unofficial reports Pakistan is producing around 90 thousand barrel of crude oil daily within the country while the remaining part is being imported from friendly countries.
Earlier there was also big news from the Zain Koh region also in Bugti tribal territory where as huge gas reserve had been found years back and the government had yet to make it public officially. However scientists particularly geologists had confirmed the discovery of huge gas reserves in Zain Koh.
If the information received is verified officially by government of Balochistan then the Government of Pakistan will not be under obligation to buy natural gas form Iran or finalize the deal.
In such case Pakistan will not only be self sufficient in production of gas need no imports, particularly from Iran or Turkmenistan through TAPI. However Govt can allow the Iran and Turkmenistan to export gas to India only with consent of Government of Pakistan.
There are very high hopes in the relevant circles that Jandran oil field will also be promising meeting the substantial needs of country or substantially reducing oil import bill.
Jandran was the region where the Balochi militants offered tough resistance to the government efforts to explore and exploit the energy resource son the plea that the government failed to pay a right price of sui gas to the Baloch people. Security sources at the top were found firm in expiring and exploiting the gas reserves without any resistance from Baloch militants.
There was clear message to the people of Balochistan that Baloch resistance had been squarely broken and it is incapable to offer any resistance to Jandran oil and gas reserves.
