Advises PM Imran to not make early announcements and lift the hopes of people.
Islamabad (Pakistan Point News – 20th May, 2019) No oil and gas reserves were found in the offshore drilling at the Kekra-1 site near Karachi.
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Petroleum Nadeem Babar announced that the offshore drilling in Kekra-1 did not yield desired results.
The offshore drilling was a joint venture of ENI, Exxon Mobil, Oil and Gas Development Company Limited and Pakistan Petroleum Limited. The consortium had started drilling activities on January 13, 2019.
Pakistan had hoped of finding these oil reserves as they could drive the country out of the economic mess.
But the last hope of Pakistanis also shattered with the failed discovery of oil and gas reserves near Karachi coast.
Along with other Pakistanis, Prime Minister Imran Khan’s ex-wife Reham Khan is also disappointed over oil and gas reserves not being found.
In her recent interview, she advised the prime minister to not make early announcements and lift the hopes of people.
“Learn to listen. Then try to understand. Then start announcements,” she wrote as she shared the video clip of the interview.
Petroleum Division (PD) of the Energy Ministry Sunday said the results of four-month offshore drilling at Indus G-Block called Kekra-I, some 230-km off the Karachi coast, had shown good quality hydrocarbon reservoir but unfortunately these were water wet.
"After the well control operations, the 6" Open Hole section drilling was resumed on Friday .The reservoir was encountered at 5,492 meters and so far about 140 meters of reservoir have been drilled. The log results show a good quality reservoir but unfortunately water wet without any gas effect," a Petroleum Division press release said.
Current depth of the well is 5,634 meters 'Managed Depth' and as per the plan; while another 55 meters would be drilled before proceeding with P&A (plug and abandon) operations, which has already been approved by Joint Venture Partners including Exxon.
