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It has grown steadily since then, producing both oil and, to a lesser degree, natural gas. [3] Oil production was entirely confined to the Potwar Plateau till 1981, when Union Texas Pakistan subsidiary discovered its first oil-field in Lower Sindh. By 1998-1999, the Lower Sindh gas-fields were producing more oil than the Potohar Plateau.
Previously, OMV had acquired Petronas' gas fields in Pakistan when it decided to exit Pakistan in 2010. [5] [6] In 2019, United Energy Pakistan was the largest foreign oil and gas exploration and production company in Pakistan, and remained 9th on the list with exports worth $227 million. [7]
This list of oil fields includes some major oil fields of the past and present. Countries by proven oil reserves 2017. The list is incomplete; there are more than 25,000 oil and gas fields of all sizes in the world. [1] However, 94 % of known oil is concentrated in fewer than 1,500 giant and major fields. [2]
Wafi Energy Pakistan Limited, doing business as Shell, is a Pakistani oil marketing company based in Karachi. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a subsidiary of Wafi Energy Holding, a Saudi Arabian oil and gas company. [ 4 ]
There's just one problem: More oil requires more oil workers. By 2020, one industry report claims that the oil industry will have created an additional 1.3 million positions .
The plateau is the location of major Pakistani oil fields, the first of which were discovered at Khaur in 1915 and Dhuliān in 1935; the Tut field was discovered in 1968, Missa Keswal was discovered in 1992 and exploration continued in the area in the 1990s. The oil fields are connected by pipeline to the Attock Refinery in Rawalpindi. [29]
Attock Petroleum Limited (Urdu pronunciation: [a.ˈʈʌk pə.ˈtroʊ.li.əm] ah-TUCK-puh-TROH-lee-uhm) is a Pakistani oil marketing company which is a subsidiary of the UK-domiciled company Attock Oil Company.
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