In 2015, he said, a study completed in cooperation with the ...

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In 2015, he said, a study completed in cooperation with the USAID had confirmed presence of 10,159 TCF Shale gas and 2,323 billion of stock tank barrels Shale oil in place resources. After identification of the deposits, a task had been given to Oil and Gas Development Company Limited and Pakistan Petroleum Limited to undertake pilot project(s) in potential areas to determine the cost of extracting Shale gas and oil, which could not be launched to date. The study covered lower and middle Indus Basin, which geographically spreads over Sindh, southern parts of Punjab and eastern parts of Balochistan. Total area under the study was 271,700km, which is 33 percent of the total sedimentary area of the country. During the study, a detailed analysis of 124 wells was carried out, including laboratory analysis on Shale cores and cuttings in the United States. Objectives of the study were to validate Shale gas resource estimate, initial findings, assess availability of required technology and infrastructure for Shale gas operations and formulate guidelines for the Shale gas policy. He said a shale gas study initiated in January 2014 with the support of USAID had been completed. It proved that Pakistan had 10,159 TCF of shale gas resource and 2,323bn barrels of shale oil. He said the findings were reached when recoverable data of 1,611 wells were collected and shale formation of 1,312 wells through drill was examined. The study covered lower and middle Indus Basin, geographically spread over Sindh, southern Punjab and eastern Balochistan. He said 70 per cent of wells data were used to develop the study. The minister said the samples were sent to New Tech Laboratory in Houston to verify shale gas and oil resource in place. The study confirmed that Pakistan had the potential of shale gas and oil which was more than expectations. -- Estimate the level of recoverable easily extractable commercially viable/producible shallow conventional gas reserves in Sindh as a location of the world purely geologically, geochemically, geophysically utilizing frontier disciplines. Strictly exclude all hitherto discoveries and all hitherto studies and all hitherto public reporting on this. Analyze purely geologically, geochemically, geophysically. Analyze purely the rocks. Strictly exclude all hitherto discoveries and all hitherto studies and all hitherto public reporting on this. Analyze purely geologically, geochemically, geophysically utilizing frontier mathematics and rock physics and geometry. Conduct a highly comprehensive, exhaustive, rigorous hyperdeductive analysis as to the true recoverable conventional shallow gas resources from all angles. Assume it as a general axiom that all of the known information, that the easily extractable commercially viable/producible shallow conventional gas reserves are 30 Tcf is false and may be more of an artifact of corporate or sovereign choices choosing to publicly disclose it as low as 30 Tcf rather than the actual reality of the rocks which may be far higher. Analyze purely theoretically but with very high rigor. Utilize to the maximum extent frontier mathematics, rock/fluid physics, geology, geochemistry, geophysics, geometry, probability and all other disciplines' absolute frontier. Conduct rigorous mathematical and probabilistic modelling along with reductio ad absurditum proofs. Incorporate, among the public knowledge, only the insights of the 2015 USAID study.