MPCL Commences Natural Gas Production from Shah Bandar Block
Mari Petroleum Company Limited (MPCL) has announced that it has commenced the production of natural gas from the Benari X-1 Field in the Shah Bandar Block from 3 May 2021.
The Shah Bandar Block is operated by Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL), and MPCL holds 32 percent working interest in it.
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Shah Bandar Joint Venture is located in District Sujawal, Sindh. It has agreed to process Benari X-1 gas at MPCL’s operated Sujawal Gas Processing Facility for its onward injection into the SSGC network, a local news outlet reported on Wednesday.
The expected output from the field is 9.5 MMSCFD.
Karachi
December 10, 2020
The Sindh cabinet has approved a Rs4.021 billion compensation package for people affected by the heavy monsoon rains earlier this year, and requested the federal government to match the grant/compensation so that the affected people could be rehabilitated in letter and spirit.
The cabinet also decided to exempt the affected small traders and growers from federal and provincial taxes to compensate them for the losses they had suffered due to heavy downpour in 2020. The meeting was attended by all ministers and advisers, Chief Secretary Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah and other officers.
The board of Revenue on the directives of the cabinet had conducted a survey of the people affected by the monsoon rains this year. The survey revealed that the heavy rains claimed 149 lives, left 103 people injured, destroyed 7,120 pacca and 75,195 katcha houses, and partially damaged 9,102 pacca and 171,463 katcha houses. Also, 8,165 cows, buffaloes, horses and camels and 11,630 g