Pakistan will push hard for quick implementation of a long-delayed trans-regional gas pipeline from Turkmenistan in a bid to ease its mounting energy crisis, Petroleum Minister Naveed Qamar said on Tuesday. Senior officials of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India on Monday inked the framework of an agreement to construct the project with an estimated value of $3.3 billion.
The project would pump natural gas to Pakistan and India through the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, the stronghold of the Taliban and its birthplace. More energy security could ease pressure on Pakistan’s government, which faces a range of challenges, from a home-grown Taliban insurgency to what will likely be years of economic pain after summer floods caused billions of dollars in damages.
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Economics, Energy, Gas, Pakistan
Afghanistan, gas, Import, India, Pakistan, pipeline, transportation
The controversy over appointment of Adnan Khwaja as MD, Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDC), is setteled after appointment of Director General (DG) Petroleum Concession Naeem Malik as new MD of the company. Details via Business Recorder
Naeem is a seasoned official with wide experience of dealing issues relating to oil and gas sectors. He has also worked as DG Gas and DG Oil in Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources. During the short span of working as DG PC, he had settled issues of oil and gas exploration and granted record exploration licences to companies in the oil and gas sectors.
After retirement of Mahboob Shah Alam, Naeem was given acting charge of OGDC MD. Adnan Khwaja’s appointment as OGDC MD had sparked controversy. However, he resigned from this post on Thursday. The Supreme Court had also taken suo motu notice of his appointment.
Government, OGDC
Development, gas, oil, Pakistan
We have heard about the IPI gas pipeline on and off. The agreement between Iran and Pakistan was signed for gas pipeline in march this year. The latest is that German Consultants are set to be appointed for this project. Details from paktribune are as below.
Pakistan is set to appoint ILF Consulting Engineers as the consultant for the Iran gas pipeline within six days, making first step toward the much-delayed project to meet energy shortage, a senior petroleum ministry official said on Wednesday.
“The cost of the consultancy project will be $25 million and they will have to complete the technical feasibility within 12 months,” Secretary Petroleum, Ejaz Chaudhry, told our sources. The Germany-based consultants would be working on the pipeline along with National Engineering Services Pakistan Ltd. (Nespak), he said.
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Gas, Government, Infrastructure
gas, Iran, Pakistan, pipeline
The sindh’s gas field Zamzama was endangered last week of flood water entering in to it after a breach of Tauri Bund, located some 70 kilometres from Guddu Barrage on the right side of the Indus River. An excerpt from Daily Times gives more details.
The Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) has come to the rescue of Zamzama gas field and deployed men and heavy machinery to strengthen the highly vulnerable parts of the breach by covering it with sand.
The Zamzama gas field experienced flooding after a breach of Tauri Bund, located some 70 kilometres from Guddu Barrage on the right side of the Indus River.
In the wake of this development, SSGC Managing Director Dr Faizullah Abbasi and Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) MD Abdul Rashid Lone visited the gas field and the areas around it on Wednesday to personally inspect the sudden inflow of floodwater and formulate a plan to utilise all possible resources to alleviate the damage in and around the field.
Dr Abbasi gave special instructions to Project Director (Special Projects) Arbab Mohammad Hashim to immediately deploy more manpower and heavy machinery to the affected area and closely monitor the flood situation around-the-clock. He instructed SSGC’s project director to expedite the process of strengthening the highly vulnerable parts of the breach by covering it with sand.
Gas, SNGPL, SSGC
gas, SNGPL, SSGC, Zamzama
Crosspost from TelecomPK
Of the various uses of mobile technology, one interesting use of the technology for Gas or Oil Pipeline Operators is for Remote Cathodic Protection (CP) Monitoring.
The traditional way used to monitor CP is the manual measurement of potential risks by a dedicated team of field engineers and technicians. This required an operator to physically go out to the field and collect readings on a quarterly basis. Records showed that, a pipeline of 128 miles could take up-to three weeks to complete. Not to forget the labor, time and cost involved in this effort.
Now, using the GSM technology a complete M2M turn-key solution can be provided for web-based wireless remote monitoring systems for the oil, gas, irrigation, water/wastewater, and similar industries. The technology gives a reliable solution for data acquisition with low-cost telemetry, well-packaged hardware and easy-to-grasp web-based data presentation.
The flow diagram below shows how it really works.
This is one way mobile technology is used in the oil and gas industry. I believe more of such viable solutions can be made to help the agricultural sector.
Gas, Oil, Technology
cathodic, gas, GSM, mobile, oil, pipeline, protection
