Syed Akhtar Ali

April 2, 2018

Growing gas demand can be tackled by building storages in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: At present, political parties are defining and refining their agendas or manifestoes. Normally before elections, they are more attentive and keen to listen and later […]
March 18, 2018

Electricity for All: Rural electrification – II

For cooking and heating needs, biogas and biomass solutions are there which can be installed for household clusters. This is being done already, commercially and as […]
March 11, 2018

Electricity for All: Rural electrification – I

Energy is a basic necessity of life required both by rural and urban populace. Overall, two-third of Pakistan’s population has access to electricity and 20% have […]
March 4, 2018

Oil market

There are two major issues that would be affecting the oil market in Pakistan. One is the emergence of Electrical Vehicles in mid-term to long-term future. […]
February 26, 2018

Taking cue from US, construction and textile moguls can produce oil, gas

ISLAMABAD: The energy crisis has been resolved or is on its way to a temporary resolution through imported resources like liquefied natural gas (LNG). A long-term solution, […]
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. […]