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Presentation By
Sardar Shoukat Popalzai
President - Balochistan Economic Forum
At Pakistan Energy Forum 2015
Balochistan is a large mountainous region of 347,190 square
kilometers with population of 10.52 million (approx.). The
Province is strategically situated at the eastern flank of the
Middle East, close to Central Asian States and Caucasus
Mountains, and has a long border in the West with Iran, in the
North with Afghanistan and a 771kms seas coast in the South
that leads to the Arabian Sea.
With its rich natural resources Balochistan features as a unique
land for profitable investments and Balochistan has sufficient
infrastructure resources to support the micro and macro
development process.
Energy Conference in 1994
Oil & Gas Balochistan Roundtable conference 1997
Qatar visit 2006
US Ambassador's address
Advocacy for investors
Also endeavours to impress on the Federal & Provincial
governments to strongly support foreign direct investment
in the province, and importantly, also ensure that the
message is reflected in bureaucratic policies and
procedures.
Pakistan’s unexplored gas reserves are estimated at 62.6
trillion cubic feet (TCF) and oil reserves at 3.5 billion barrels.
Total proven oil reserves are an estimated 313 million
barrels, and proven gas reserves are estimated at 29.67
trillion cubic feet, much of it in Balochistan. According to
international assessments, Balochistan has 6 trillion barrels
of oil in onshore/offshore, and 19 trillion cubic feet gas
reserves.
The South-western province produces about 22.7% of
Pakistan’s natural gas and consumes only 5.81% of the
county’s total output, Balochistan is Pakistan’s largest and
most geologically interesting province
Balochistan could be at the forefront of new exploration and
extractive activities for the next few years. “Best prospects”
in the province include, hydrocarbon prospects, especially
oil & gas, natural gas are particularly bright. In 1952, PPL
discovered a huge natural gas field at Sui Bugti Tribal area.
It was the seventh largest gas field in the world and the
biggest in Pakistan at that time. Since then the Sui Field has
been meeting a significant amount of the Pakistan’s energy
requirements.
Since Balochistan is close to Iran which has a lot of oil so it
is natural for Balochistan to have oil. The apparent rock
surface in Balochistan attracts oil companies with the
prospects of oil and that is the reason oil exploration in
Balochistan has continued for last 100 years by oil
exploration companies from US, UK, Hungary, Poland and
even Malaysia.
Uch Power Project 586 MW (Gross) Low BTU Gas.
Habibullah Coastal Power Project 140 MW (Gross) Natural
Gas.
Uch-II Power for 404MW project.
Khalifa Coastal Refinery at Gadani with a foreign direct
investment of US $6 billion.
Iran refinery of US $9 billion at Gwadar.
Balochistan possesses a deep sea port located at Gwadar,
on the Arabian Sea, not far from the Straits of Hormuz
where 30 % of the world's daily oil supply moves by ship or
pipeline. It is strategically located between three
increasingly important regions of the world: the oil-rich
Middle East, heavily populated South Asia and the
economically emerging and resource-rich Central Asia.
The new port will also encompass conversion facilities to
allow for the movement of natural gas as a part of plans for
a termination point for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-
Pakistan natural gas pipeline.
There are three major pipeline projects on the books. The
merging point of all these three pipelines will create
opportunities for the province of Balochistan particularly
downstream industries, such as oil refinery, fertilizer plants,
petrochemical, etc.
Pipeline -1: About 1,000-km of the total 1,400-km gas
pipeline costing about $3.2 billion connects Iran’s Persian
gulf South Pars gas field to the Indian border will pass
through Balochistan province. Transhipment fee from this
project will produce $500 million per year.
Pipeline -2: The $2.5 billion, 1,674-km Central Asia Oil
Pipeline will connect Turkmenistan Oil Fields to Gwadar via
and Afghanistan. Transhipment from this project will
produce $650 million per year.
Pipeline -3: The $1.88 billion Gulf-South Asia (GUSA)
pipeline project will have a 1,610-km long pipeline running
offshore along Balochistan’s coastline from Qatar up to
Jiwani . This project will generate $450 million per year.
China Pakistan Economic corridor Energy Pipeline.
THE GREAT GAME
Gwadar & Chabahar Energy outlets.
Gwadar is planned to serve as a major energy hub for
storage and transhipment of oil and gas to and from
the Central Asian states as well as China.
Energy Geopolitics: Natural Gas Pipelines
Iranian gas arrives in Sharjah - UAE
PROJECTS AT GWADAR PORT - ENERGY SECTOR DOWN
STREAM
Oil and Gas terminals
Oil refineries and large oil storages
Petrochemical industries etc.
RECONSTRUCTION OPPORTUNITY ZONES (ROZ’S) BEING
DEVELOPED BY USA AND ALSO SUPPORTED BY EUROPE.
Gadani Energy Park (10 coal power plants with 6600MW
capacity).
Electricity:
Iran is supplying around 130 MW of electricity in coastal
areas of Balochistan, and Iran would further provide
1000MW
Gwadar Energy corridor and costal refinery.
Exact coal sources data in Balochistan is not available, but
the possibility of these deposits being sizeable cannot be
ruled out.
Renewable energy :
Balochistan is blessed with the resources that can help ease
energy shortage substantially through renewable energy
provided timely and necessary steps are taken to exploit
these resources to the benefit of the province and the
country.
According to the18th Amendment of the Constitution,
renewable energy comes under the purview of provinces, It
is difficult to understand how this system will work and how
it is going to benefit the province in terms of revenue
generation.
Wind Energy:
Balochistan is blessed with seven wind corridors suitable for
wind farms. Some of these corridors are at least 50% better
and more efficient compared to other areas of the country.
These are high potential points where the Balochistan
government should put up wind masts and invite potential
investors to set up wind farms.
Geo-thermal:
The province should make efforts to establish the potential
of the geo-thermal source west of Koh-e-Sultan in Chagai
District.
There are potential sources of geo-thermal energy north of
Nokundi and west of Koh-e-Sultan, a survey report reveals
that 10,000 MW electricity could be generated using
underground warm water in Koh-e-Sultan area of
Balochistan. This can be a source of cheapest energy
Huge reserves of tight gas:
Sui area in Balochistan have huge reserves of tight gas
equivalent to its presently known natural gas reserves.
Wave Energy:
Power generation using wave energy. Offers more
predictable outputs than wind. Pakistan has about 1000km
long coastline of which complex network of creeks in the
Indus deltaic area. The erosional features along the Makran
costal areas show the relevance of strong wave energy,
which could be harness for the generation of electric power
for rapidly developing costal cities like Gawader, Pasni,
Ormara, Gadani, etc.
Coal:
Pakistan is believed to have 186 billion tons of coal reserves
as of 2013, and Balochistan is believed to have 0.459 billion
tons of coal reserves and coal fields all of which are located
in northern part of the province.
Solar Power:
The northern belt of Balochistan from Taftan to Zhob and
Kharan, Basema touching Surab is highly suitable for
installation of solar power or solar thermal power
systems.The potential of solar energy is immense in
Balochistan, an agreement was signed in 2013 with Korean
company for establishment of USD 700 Million, 300 MW
Solar Power Plant.
The following slide shows the wind mapping stations in
Balochistan and the solar radiation map of Pakistan with
very bright prospects of daily solar radiation in the province
of Balochistan.
Tribal Society
Little Exploration, Declining Production
Security
Corporate Social Responsibility
There are many challenges to doing business in Pakistan: often
unresponsive bureaucrats, inadequate infrastructure, a pre-
modern mind-set among much of the population, to name a few.
Balochistan presents many of these challenges and a few more in
a purer form. The province also offers great opportunities to those
willing to look for and develop the energy resources below the
surface of a lightly explored, but geologically promising part of
the world.