ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister of Energy for Petroleum Division, Omar Ayub Khan has welcomed the execution of the Petroleum Concession Agreements (PCAs) and Exploration Licenses (ELs) and termed them an important step towards incremental investments in Pakistan’s Energy sector that would lead to expanding the area of operations in far flung areas of the country; contribute to the socio economic uplift of these areas and hopefully increase sources of indigenous energy production in the country.
The Minister was speaking on the occasion of signing ceremony on the successful execution of PCAs and ELs held at the Committee Room, Petroleum Division, Ministry of Energy on Monday.
The PCAs and ELs were signed by Secretary Petroleum, Mian Asad Hayauddin and DG (Petroleum Concession) Imran Ahmed who were signatories on behalf of the Government of Pakistan and Dr. Naseem Ahmed, MD/CEO OGDCL, Moin Raza, MD/CEO PPL and Lt. Gen (Retired) Ishfaq Nadeem Ahmed, MD/CEO MPCL.
The PCAs and ELs are located at Block No. 3269-1 (Wali West)- MPCL; Block No.3072-8 and Block No.2972-6 (Shakar Ganj West-Cholistan) OGDCL and Block No. 3072-5 (Punjab) PPL.
Wali West block covers an area of 1609.63 Sq Kms and is spread over North Waziristan (64.71%) South Waziristan (27.73%), FR Tank (1.23%), FR Lakki Marwat (6.18%) and Bannu (0.16%). The Cholistan Block covers an area of 2478.26 Sq.Kms and is spread between the districts of Bahawalpur (19.22%), Bahawalnagar (80.78%), The Shakarganj West Block covers an area of 2479.37 Sq. Kms between the districts of Pakpattan (27.46%), Bahawalnagar (0.25%), Vehari (51.66%) and Sahiwal (20.63%). The Punjab Block, 2410.81 in Sq.Kms is primarily located in Pakpattan (42.78%), Sahiwal (41.58%), Okara (15.07%) and Bahawalnagar (0.57%) districts.
The minimum firm work commitment for these blocks has been worked out to US $ 44.1 million for a three year period. The companies are obligated to spend a minimum of US $ 30,000/year in each block on socio-economic welfare activities. The annual contribution towards such schemes for these four blocks would, thus, stand at US $ 120,000.
Input with INP
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