Pakistan’s government has launched an upstream exploration tender offering 20 onshore blocks, in its latest attempt to address the country’s growing reliance on gas imports to meet rising demand. In the meantime, state-owned importers Pakistan LNG and Pakistan State Oil have resorted to procuring a combined 12 cargoes for delivery between November and January-the most ever for sought by the nation for the period-in a bid to avoid a winter supply crunch. The tender covers blocks an area of ~32,000 sq km, equivalent to ~3% of Pakistan’s total sedimentary area of 827,268 sq km, nine of which are in the Upper Indus basin, the nation’s main oil and gas basin, with four on offer in the Middle Indus basin. Blocks are also on offer in frontier basins, with three blocks in the Balochistan basin and two in the Pishin basin.
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