SOS call from LPG industry
Pakistan is one of the largest energy consumers in the world. It needs continuous energy supply to overcome economic challenges due to rising graph of population that would be unitising…
Where’s the beef?
The recently concluded 12th review of the IMF program has inadvertently confirmed the listless achievements of the Nawaz Sharif's governments during the last three years. The interesting part of the…
Asia-Europe economic cooperation
Of the several interesting seminars, I recently attended at Frankfurt the one on Asian European integration was extremely forward looking in its content. It sported prominent panellists, including our own…
Poland throws down gas gauntlet to Russia
Poland on Friday received its first-ever commercial LNG delivery from the Middle East at its brand new Baltic sea terminal, a key step in easing its dependence on Russian gas.…
Benefits of Gadani power plants
Pakistan's power sector is in deep crisis due to massive loadshedding and lack of reliable power supply to meet the existing demand. This situation has arisen due to poor planning…
The last opportunity, perhaps
We don't have our own sources of energy; we do not own enough capital to provide even two square meals to our burgeoning population and; being too far behind in…
How gas could warm relations between Israel and Turkey
On the sidelines of a nuclear security summit in Washington in March, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a private meeting with Israel's energy minister, Yuval Steinitz. It was the…
Is Pakistan running out of gas?
PTI Chairman Imran Khan insists that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province is brimming with a plenty of natural gas. In a recent meeting with a small group of journalists Khan complained…
The reality behind the budgetary façade
Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC), a policy research think tank has refuted a number of official claims about the outgoing year as well as some of the projections for…
In crisis-ridden Venezuela, electricity is also scarce
Venezuelans are accustomed to severe shortages of oil, diapers and other staple products. But those hoping to buy what they could find got a new unpleasant surprise this week. They…
