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    Pakistan Gas Discovery

  • New gas discovery to boost domestic, industrial supplies: Abbasi

    Sharing details at a press conference, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said Petroleum Exploration Limited (PEL), a private firm, made the gas condensate discovery in Badin-IV North exploration licence at Zainab-1 well in Tando Mohammad Khan district of Sindh province...

    A successful Drill Stem Test (DST) was carried out which flowed at a rate of 24mmcfd of gas and 765 barrels of condensate per day...

  • Gas discovery

    ISLAMABAD: MOL Pakistan announced on Tuesday that it had made a sizeable gas condensate discovery at Mardan Khel-1 exploratory well in district Hangu of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...

    56 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd) gas with 5,822 psi pressure at 40/64 inches fix choke,” the company said...

  • Third gas discovery in Hala

    KARACHI: The Pakistan Petroleum Ltd (PPL) has made another hydrocarbon discovery at its exploration well Fazl X-I located in Hala block...

    3 mmscfd (million standard cubic feet per day) gas along with 50 barrels per day condensate at 48/64 inches choke size, which confirmed the presence of commercial quantities of natural gas and condensate at Fazl X-1...

  • Mari claims gas discovery in Ghotki

    ISLAMABAD: Mari Petroleum Company Limited (MPCL) on Wednesday declared a new gas discovery in Ghotki...

    In a statement, the company said it “made a significant gas discovery under new exploratory efforts at Shaheen-1 exploration well, drilled in Mari development and production (D&P) lease area, located in District Ghotki, Sindh province”...

  • Turkey announces historic gas discovery in Black Sea

    ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said Turkey had made a historic discovery of gas in the Black Sea, but would still speed up contentious exploration in the Mediterranean that has pitted it against Greece and the EU...

    Turkey hopes the discovery can help wean it off imported energy, including from Russia, which comes at a high cost at a time when the local currency is weakening and the economy is more fragile because...

  • Egypt announces discovery of 3,500-year-old tomb in Luxor

    LUXOR: Egypt on Saturday announced the discovery in the southern city of Luxor of a pharaonic tomb belonging to a royal goldsmith who lived more than 3,500 years ago during the reign of the 18th dynasty...

    The tomb, located on the west bank of the river Nile in a cemetery for noblemen and top officials, is a relatively modest discovery, but one that authorities has announced with a great deal of fanfare in a bid to boost the country’s...

  • PU claims discovery of age-old elephant tusk

    LAHORE: The Punjab University’s Department of Zoology claims to have found 13-million-year old lower tusk of elephant in Chabbar Syeddan, Sohawa area...

    According to Zoology Department chairman Prof Dr Muhammad Akhtar, the lower tusk belonged to Protanancus Chinjiensis species of elephant and its family was called Gomphotheriidae
  • NON-FICTION: THE DISCOVERY OF PI

    When Rajiv Surendra, the rapping mathlete who stole the hearts of millions with his performance as Kevin G in the film Mean Girls, was approached by a cameraman on set insisting that he read Yann Martel’s book, Life of Pi, he had no idea it would completely change his life...

    The similarities between himself and Martel’s protagonist drew his unbound wonderment
  • Biggest mosque in Brussels evacuated after discovery of suspicious package

    BRUSSELS: Belgian emergency services evacuated the biggest mosque in Brussels and decontaminated 11 people on Thursday after the discovery of a suspicious package containing what turned out to be flour, officials said...

    With the EU capital on its highest terror alert, firefighters in chemical suits and gas masks were called in to the Great Mosque of Brussels amid fears that white powder in the package could be anthrax...

  • Pakistani researcher from Quetta contributed to gravitational waves discovery

    QUETTA: As the story of one of the world’s most influential scientific discovery unfolds, it comes to the forefront that not one, but two Pakistanis were part of the various research teams which contributed to the discovery of gravitational waves...

    A young researcher from Quetta, Imran Khan, currently pursuing his PhD at Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) in Italy, was one of the co-authors of the Physical Review Letter (PRL) paper,...

  • Skin-crawling discovery: 'body farm' scientists find corpses move

    An Australian scientist has proved that human bodies move around significantly for more than a year after death, in findings that could have implications for detectives and pathologists around the world...

    After studying and photographing the movements of a corpse over 17-months, Alyson Wilson told AFP on Friday that she found humans don't exactly rest in peace
  • Callers asking Garrett Discovery to change report, says CEO

    WASHINGTON: “We are technical people in the US, and we have nothing to do with the politics of Pakistan,” says Andrew Garrett, the CEO of the company that examined an audio clip of an alleged conversation between former chief justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar and an unidentified caller...

    Mr Garrett heads Garrett Discovery, a Florida-based company that conducts forensics on mobile, audio and video clips...

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