Syed Akhtar Ali

February 25, 2018

It’s too early to drive EVs

Electrical vehicles are getting increasingly popular by the day. EVs’ population in the world doubled in 2016 to 2 million from 1 million a year earlier. […]
February 4, 2018

Oil and gas outlook – II

In the part-I of this article, we discussed the long-term future of oil due to the projected emergence of Electrical Vehicles and a very significant elimination […]
January 31, 2018

Oil and gas outlook — I

The Petroleum Institute of Pakistan (PIP) has released its annual publication recently which contains useful data, analyses and recommendations. We would like to examine the main […]
January 22, 2018

Renewable energy can be delayed, but it can’t be stopped

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Energy (Power Division) has issued a policy order recently which has drawn severe criticism from some renewable energy stakeholders as well as Sindh and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. […]
December 18, 2017

Renewable resources: Competitive energy policy a welcome move

ISLAMABAD: The Cabinet Committee on Energy has announced some new decisions followed by press briefings by Power Division Minister Awais Leghari. Most of these pertain to renewable […]
December 11, 2017

LPG market regulation to resolve price hike problem

ISLAMABAD: The liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) policy could not be streamlined over the past few decades. There has been stranglehold of the powerful people who earned unlearnt […]
November 13, 2017

Domestic oil, gas production not enough to tackle demand

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has been doing well in all other energy areas except for domestic production of oil and gas. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) […]
October 20, 2017

Reko Diq copper: blessing or curse?

Bad news has been coming recently of Pakistan losing the case in International tribunal on the Reko Diq case. The penalty expected varies from 300-400 million […]
October 9, 2017

Curtailing losses in the gas sector

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has been doing well in all other energy areas except for domestic production of oil and gas. The monetary value of […]