ISLAMABAD: Nadeem Babar, Special Assistant to the Prime Minster (SAPM) on Petroleum chaired a stakeholders’ consultation meeting at the Ministry of Energy, Petroleum Division, on Wednesday, with the current and the interested LNG terminal operators.
The meeting was also attended by the secretary and the senior officers of the Petroleum Division.
The companies including Energas Terminals (Pvt) Ltd, Engro Elengy Terminal Ltd, ExxonMobile Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd, Mitsubishi Corporation, Pakistan Gas Port Consortium Limited, Tabeer Energy (Private) Limited, Pakistan State Oil Company Limited, Pakistan LNG Terminal Limited, Government Holdings (Pvt) Limited, and Interstate Gas Systems Ltd, attended the meeting. The meeting was held to consult the companies currently operating the LNG terminals in Pakistan, and also those with upcoming planned investments in this sector, so as to get better visibility of their projects in terms of design, capacity and schedule in order to align the gas transmission and distribution network being established by the Ministry of Energy, Petroleum Division in compliance with the decision of the Supreme Court of Pakistan to start work on North South Gas Pipeline within six months of 13th August 2020.
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