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.
Gas production from Benari started
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May 5, 2021
KARACHI: Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) has commenced commercial gas production from Benari Development and Production Lease (Benari D&PL) in Shah Bandar Block with effect from May 3, 2021, a bourse filing said on Tuesday.
The block is located in districts Thatta and Sujawal, Sindh and lies in the southernmost part of the Lower Indus basin.
Benari X-1 well in Benari D&PL is the first exploratory well drilled in Shah Bandar block, which is operated by Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) with 63 percent working interest (WI) along with its joint venture partners, Mari Petroleum Company Limited (MPCL) having 32 percent WI, Sindh Energy Holding Company Limited (SEHCL) and Government Holdings Private Limited (GHPL) with 2.5 percent WI each, it said.