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New Park Energy Ltd (NPEL) in Thatta district of Sindh has launched the first wind energy project. It will produce 45 megawatt as a first step towards becoming the 100-megawatt pilot project to be completed by the end of 2005. The wind generated electricity would be provided to the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) to [...]

Where there is a will there is a way, no matter whether you are a male or a female like the forecourt manager of a petrol pump at Aabpara. In a male-dominated society, Rubina is one of those fortunate females who have the full support of her husband to go out and work in an [...]

Twenty foreign and local companies have shown interest in a windfarm project in Sindh (province of Pakistan). Initially, Mirpur Sakro and Keti Bandar had been marked the best for this purpose. This project would be further expanded by installation of more windpower generators on the coastal belt – onshore and offshore. The electricity produced through [...]

Initial production from Petronas Carigali (Pakistan) Ltd’s joint venture plant at Ghotki, near Sukkur, was 15 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd) and would be increased to 70 mmscfd within the next two months, Petronas said in a statement on April 5. It said Petronas Carigali Pakistan was the operator of the Rehmat Field [...]

Representatives of 16 foreign companies surveyed the persistently Wind-swept area in Gharo, Thatta District, where the Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) has identified 19,700 acres of land for “wind farming”, and appeared satisfied with the site selection. The delegates of different windmill and turbine manufacturing companies, including Denmark-based Westas and the US-based Access Energy, surveyed [...]

Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) laboratories of Hyderabad have come up with solar dehydrators for increasing dates production, especially in district Khairpur, officials said on Monday. Sindh’s district Khairpur is considered as one of the largest date growing area in Pakistan but the growers have failed to fully utilise the potential of [...]

The government of the province of Sindh in Pakistan has embarked on a programme to install windmills along the coastal belt that will help generate power to meet 30 per cent of the domestic consumption of the province. Work on the project is expected to commence after six months and the windmills at the initial [...]

Finnish energy business Wartsila is to convert a captive power plant in Lahore, Pakistan, to dual-fuel (DF) operation. The conversion is scheduled for completion in the early part of 2005. The power plant is owned by Century Power Generation of Pakistan. The demand for gas and dual-fuel engines is booming in Pakistan. This trend towards [...]

Converting power plants to operate on fuels other than they were originally designed for provides the plant owner with both environmental and financial benefits. This growing trend is demonstrated by a captive power plant in Lahore, Pakistan, which Wärtsilä is converting for dual-fuel (DF) operation. The conversion is scheduled for completion in the early part [...]

MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Company announced Monday that it has made a new (second) discovery of oil and gas in the Tal Block, located in the Northern Western Frontier Province of Pakistan. Exploration activity already resulted in a discovery (Manzalai-1 well) in December 2002, and following the first discovery, the consortium decided to continue [...]