QUETTA: In a major development, Mari Petroleum Company has discovered new gas reserves from five wells in the Balochistan province of Pakistan.
The company has completed the production, testing and transmission of an additional 3 million metric standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD) of gas.
This development was announced after the submission of detailed reports to the Pakistan Stock Exchange. According to Mari Petroleum, the natural gas extracted from the Ghazij Gas Field is now being provided to Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL).
Earlier, on July 1, Mari Petroleum Company announced the discovery of new gas reserves in the province of Sindh.
The petroleum company had written a letter to the Pakistan Stock Exchange informing the discovery of the gas reserve in Sindh.
In the letter, the company said that a 1,006-meter well was drilled in the Ghazij Formation, where preliminary tests have found gas reserves of 5 million standard cubic feet per day from the well.
