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Pakistan to import gas from Qatar

Pakistan has agreed to import natural gas from Qatar following delays on a proposal to build a pipeline to transport the fuel from Iran, officials say.

Pakistani and Qatari officials met yesterday in Doha and reached a preliminary agreement to ship 1.5 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per year to Pakistan, a government energy adviser told Bloomberg. “There is a shortage,” said Asim Hussain, a petroleum and natural resources adviser to the Pakistani government. “We are a country that is not self-sufficient in gas.”

Pakistan had originally sought 3.2 million tonnes, but Qatar could not provide that amount, Mr Hussain said. Pakistan regularly suffers power cuts because it has inadequate supplies of gas to fuel power stations.


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Self created petroleum woes and IPI project in Pakistan

M S HASAN

ARTICLE (January 25 2009): The management, or more appropriately, mismanagement of petroleum related matters, never cease to amaze me! As a petroleum professional of sorts and considerable association with this industry, I learnt of Dr Asim Hussain, for the first time when the national media, some time back, had reported the return of an "advisor" on petroleum to the prime minister, from Iran who announced that the government of Iran had agreed to supply 50,000 barrels of crude per day, to a cash strapped Pakistan on deferred payment basis.


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