Articles

May 6, 2019

Restructuring energy

K-Electric was privatized in a rush in 2005 to a motley crowd of invisible investors. The company — KESC then — was, indeed, in deep trouble […]
April 22, 2019

Thar coal can help produce fertiliser, steel and gas

ISLAMABAD: A power plant has been inaugurated recently in Thar and many other projects of the total capacity of 5,000 megawatts are in the pipeline. However, electricity […]
April 20, 2019

Time for energy competition

Every winter, there are gas shortages despite induction of LNG. Our local gas resources and production are going down, or barely remain constant, while demand has […]
April 15, 2019

Towards an alternative gas scenario

Ogra has issued its annual report for the year 2017-18, titled ‘State of the Regulated Petroleum Industry’. Gas demand, supplies, shortages and overbillings have occupied headlines […]
April 8, 2019

Complexities of LNG – spot vs long-term pricing

ISLAMABAD: Only 20% of Pakistan’s population has access to clean piped natural gas (PNG) while the rest use biomass in the form of uplahs and shrubs or […]