Oil, Gas and Coal Resources of Sindh

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• Oil, Gas and Coal Resources of Sindh
• Naseer Memon

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Oil and Gas Resources of Sindh
Pakistan Energy Year Book-2006
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Balance Recoverable Reserves (as on 30th June
2006)
Pakistan Energy Year Book-2006
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Sindhs Contribution

• In 2005-06 Sindh produced 982,035 million cubic
  feet (MCFT) of gas.
• Sindh consumed only 461,779 MCFT, which is less
  than 50 of its production.
• Hence over 50 of the gas produced by the
  provinces was used out side the province.
• In 2005-06 Sindh produced 13.3 million barrels
  of oil having value about 91 billion rupees.
• (US 115/barrel, Rs. 60/US)

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Dividend for Sindh

• Out of 11,613 employees in SSGC and SNGPL,
  Sindhs share was 3,613 (including 1,940 from
  Karachi) whereas Punjabs share was 5,454.
• (Former Minister for Petroleum, Mr. Amanullah
  Jadoon told NA on 14th April 2007)

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Jobs in Multinational companies- Example of a
company
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State of Human Development

• Major oil and gas producing areas such as Badeen,
  Khairpur, Sukkur, Ghotki, Jamshoro, Dadu,
  Larkana/Qambar, Sanghar are completely under
  developed and communities surrounding the oil and
  gas field live in primitive ages.
• According to Human Development Report of UNDP
  (2003) Badin, the major oil producing district
  ranked at 60th out of 91 districts in country.
• Only 3 districts of Sindh (including Karachi and
  Hyderabad) found place in top thirty districts of
  country on HDI.
• The same report placed Rural Sindh lowest among
  all urban and rural areas of all provinces ranked
  on HD Index.

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MDG Ranking 2005 of major oil and gas producing
districts (out of 98 Districts)
(Pakistan Millennium Development Goals
Report-2006)
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State of Human Development

• Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC)
  annual report of 2001 Social Development in
  Pakistan-Growth, Inequity and Poverty mentions
  that 50 percent of districts of Sindh (all from
  rural Sindh) were in high deprivation category
  and 49 of rural population was under high
  deprivation.
• ADB report Poverty in Pakistan Issues, Causes
  and Institutional Response (2002) mentions Rural
  Sindh as the poorest area with estimated poverty
  at 52.2 and Urban Sindh as the least poor at
  14.9.

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