Ayesha gas field: SSGC, PEL determine to pierce forward

PHOTO: FILE

PHOTO: FILE

ISLAMABAD: The brawl between Pakistan Exploration Limited (PEL) and Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) over that entity would lay a tube from Ayesha gas margin to Golarchi continued.

Based on a prolongation form of a gas field, that was around 3 to 4 years, SSGC believes that it would be economically unfeasible for it to lay a tube as it pinned a cost and shortcoming on PEL.

However, in a assembly with supervision officials final month, confidant to PEL, Munir Ahmad, pronounced that a association had dual other discoveries in a same retard – Aminah and Ayesha-north – and designed on delivering a whole prolongation from a Ayesha gas margin smoothness point.

He afterwards common a total prolongation form of a 3 gas fields that stipulated gas supply adult to 20 mmcfd and a duration of upsurge to be 10 years. In response, SSGC settled that it looked apparently possibly and economically viable, though indispensable to be reviewed.

After minute discussion, it was concluded that PEL shall shortly contention to a supervision for capitulation a total growth plan.

The prolongation form authorized by a supervision would be adopted for a purpose of Gas sale Purchase Agreement (GSPA) and analysis of a feasibility of gas ride pipeline.

It was also concluded that DG Gas will trigger a routine of allocation of this total prolongation from a 3 gas fields during an suitable time. SSGC will examination a feasibility during a earliest, formed on a prolongation form supposing by PEL and surprise PEL to capacitate it to ensue serve in a matter accordingly.

PEL is an user of Badin-IV south retard where healthy gas has been recently detected by a association during 3 places namely Ayesha-1, Ayesha North and Aminah fields.

During a meeting, SSGC sensitive PEL of a inability to negotiate a GSPA as one of a operative seductiveness owners, namely Frontier Holdings Limited (FHL), had sensitive a gas application about a brawl and that a execution of any GSPA would be unlawful.

However, it was forked out by a PEL emissary due to a default on partial of FHL, a company, move in suitability with a supplies of a Petroleum Concession Agreement (PCA), dispossessed FHL’s operative with PEL. Consequently, PEL had submitted a ask to a Directorate General of Petroleum Concessions (DGPC) for assignment of a dispossessed operative seductiveness of FHL to PEL. Ghulam Munir, emissary executive of DGPC, sensitive that a anxiety had been done to a Law Division and serve movement would be taken on receipt of a Law Division’s advice.

It was forked out by DG Gas that a matter between PEL and FHL was a brawl between partners and as per a supplies of PCA/Joint Operating Agreement, a supervision usually deals with a user allocated by corner venture. Therefore, a routine of finalising a GSA should not be stopped. After some deliberations, it was concluded that SSGC and PEL should continue a discussion.

Published in The Express Tribune, Aug 9th, 2016.

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