{"id":26387,"date":"2025-11-21T15:51:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=26387"},"modified":"2025-11-21T15:51:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:51:44","slug":"pakistan-to-build-island-to-boost-oil-exploration-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=26387","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to build island to boost oil exploration: report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

State-owned energy company Pakistan Petroleum Ltd (PPL) is reclaiming land from the sea to create a launchpad to ramp up oil and gas exploration, US outlet Bloomberg<\/em> reported<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citing PPL\u2019s General Manager Exploration and Core Business Development, Arshad Palekar, Bloomberg<\/em> reported that the artificial island will be created about 30 kilometres off the coast of Sindh, near Sujawal. He said this on the sidelines of an oil and gas conference in Islamabad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPlanned with a height of six feet, the platform will prevent high tides from interrupting round-the-clock exploration work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pakistan\u2019s drilling efforts are gaining fresh momentum after United States President Donald Trump indicated an interest in the country\u2019s \u201cmassive oil reserves\u201d in a social media post<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, Islamabad has awarded offshore exploration licenses to local companies PPL, Mari Energies Ltd and Prime International Oil and Gas Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe project, a first for Pakistan, builds on Abu Dhabi\u2019s experience, where artificial islands for drilling have been successfully built,\u201d Palekar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Construction of the island will be completed in February, and operation will start immediately after, according to Palekar. The company aims to drill around 25 wells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vitol and Cnergyico, Pakistan\u2019s largest oil refiner, delivered<\/a> the country\u2019s biggest single shipment of very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) for ship refuelling, the global trading firm said in a statement late Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This shipment came from Cnergyico\u2019s first large-scale batch of fuel that meets International Maritime Organisation (IMO) low-sulphur rules. The company began producing it after importing its first US crude oil cargoes earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The move will enable large vessels refuelling in Pakistan to now sail longer routes from east to west without needing to stop elsewhere, while also giving the country a stronger local supply of environmentally compliant marine fuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference Link:- https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1956086<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

State-owned energy company Pakistan Petroleum Ltd (PPL) is reclaiming land from the sea to create a launchpad to ramp up oil and gas exploration, US outlet Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. Citing PPL\u2019s General Manager Exploration and Core Business Development, Arshad Palekar, Bloomberg reported that the artificial island will be created about 30 kilometres off the coast of Sindh, near Sujawal. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[6690,25089,24349,483,25090,25088],"class_list":["post-26387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-energy-3","tag-explore-oil-gas","tag-natural-resources-2","tag-pakistan-2","tag-self-sufficiency-4","tag-to-build-island","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26389,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26387\/revisions\/26389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}