ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Minister for petroleum Sarwar Khan has announced thatExxonMobil an American multinational oil and gas corporation would start a1,900-meter deep offshore drilling, some 230 kilometers away from Karachi,in January next year (2019). He said that a drilling rig was on its wayfrom Mozambique in this regard.
He said that the government was working on three gas pipelines whichincluded Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI), IP and Russianoffshore gas pipeline, adding that work on TAPI pipeline was on an advancedstage.
The minister added that the US has imposed new sanctions on Iran, however,’we will take decision keeping in view our interest’.
He said that recently an Iranian technical team has visited Pakistan todiscuss IP project. He said that Pakistan is willing to complete the gaspipeline as it needs energy.
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Sarwar Khan expressing his views said that LNG contract signed by theprevious Pakistani government and Qatar needs to be re-negotiated to ensuretransparency.
