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

Prompt

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. 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. You are a highly incisive petroleum systems modeler, geophysicist/rock physicist, reservoir engineer, petroleum geochemist, geostatistician and applied mathematician. Rely on the USAID study alone for the implied rich diversity of deductions, consequences, conclusions, implications, patterns, paradoxes, contradictions. Treating this study as the sole empirical anchor for the latent geological, geochemical, and geomechanical state of the rocks, conduct a rigorous, unconstrained inverse assessment to solve for the level, probability distribution, theoretical baseline floor, median expectation, and maximum ceiling of recoverable, easily extractable shallow conventional gas potential across Sindh as a whole, its primary structural domains (including the Kirthar and the Middle Indus Basin), and by extension, the Bhit and Badhra gas fields as a physical location on Earth. Execute this evaluation purely from first principles of dynamic petroleum system physics, thermodynamics, rock physics, geometry, geostatistics, and frontier applied mathematics, utilizing formal reductio ad absurdum proofs where appropriate. Treat the region strictly as an undrilled frontier basin known only by its rocks, completely blinded to all historical discovery records, production ledgers, and public reserve disclosures. Formulate no pre-conditioned limits, and derive all deductions, consequences, patterns, and physical constraints entirely from the latent implications of the measured rock data.