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. US Energy Information Administration (USEIA) in April 2011 reported presence of 206 TCF Shale Gas in Place Resource in Lower Indus Basin out of which 51 TCF were technically recoverable. However, in June 2013, USEIA revised Shale Gas resource in Pakistan as 586 TCF in place out of which 105 TCF were tipped as risked technically recoverable and also included 9.1 Billion Barrel Shale Oil risked technically recoverable resource out of 227 Billion Barrel Shale Oil in place. To authenticate Shale Gas Resources in the country, Shale Gas Study with financial support from USAID was initiated in January 2014. The objectives of the study were to (i) validate Shale Gas Resource estimate of USEIA, (ii) assess availability of required technology & infrastructure for Shale Gas operations and (iii) formulate guidelines for Shale Gas Policy. The study has been completed in November 2015 with a total cost of US $ 2.2 MM. The study covered Lower & Middle Indus basin which geographically spread over Sind and southern part of Punjab & eastern part of Baluchistan province. Total area under the study was 271,700 km2, which is 33% of total sedimentary area of Pakistan. Under the said work program, detailed analysis of One Hundred Twenty Four (124) wells were carried out including laboratory analysis on Shale Cores and Cuttings in USA. The study has confirmed presence of substantial Shale Gas and Shale Oil as under: In Place Resource: · Free Gas (TCF) 3,778 · Adsorbed Gas (TCF) 6,381 · Total Gas (TCF) 10,159 · Oil (BSTB) 2,323 Estimate the level and probability of recoverable easily extractable commercially viable/producible shallow conventional gas reserves in Sindh, and all of its zones such as the Kirthar and the Middle Indus Basin...etc, 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 related to the easily extractable commercially viable/producible shallow conventional gas reserves is false and may be more of an artifact of corporate or sovereign choices choosing to publicly disclose it as low 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 most importantly dynamic petroleum system physics, stochastic monte carlo / geostatistics, integrated physics proxy modeling, reservoir simulation & material balance along with all other disciplines' absolute frontier. This is primarily an inverse problem. 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. Exclude all hitherto discoveries, all hitherto production history, all public domain reserve reports except the latent conditions, which itself may be underestimates, proven by the USAID 2015 study. Analyze Sindh as if it were an undrilled frontier basin known only by its rocks.