Hungarian Oil and Gas Company MOL is all set to add 28 mmcfd gas and 7,300 barrels of crude oil to the system from Makhori East-III field by the end of January 2014, officials said. Sources told Business Recorder that MOL is the operator of the Tal Block located in the Kohat Plateau, Khyber Pakhtunkhawa.
Tal Block is jointly being explored by Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL); Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDCL); Government Holdings Private Limited (GHPL) and Pakistan Oilfields Limited (POL). So far, six discoveries have been made in the block, the first in 2002 and the most recent in 2011. Commercial production has commenced from Manzalai, Makori and Makori East fields. Mamikhel and Maramzai discoveries are currently being evaluated through Extended Well Testing (EWT).
Officials said within next few months, Pakistan''s local production of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is expected to increase by around 700 tons per day (bbl/d), crude oil production likely to cross 100,000 barrel per day mark from current production of around 70,000 barrel per day and natural gas production by 700 mmcfd. About 22,000 barrels per day of crude oil is expected to come into the system from Makori and another 21,000 barrel per day from Nashpa Field being operated by OGDCL.
At present, gas production from MOL''s TAL Block is around 320 mmcfd and 8,760 bbl/d of condensate/oil, which accounts for 8 percent and 12 percent of country''s total gas and condensate/oil production respectively; and which enables MOL Pakistan along with TAL Joint Venture Partners to cater almost 100 percent gas demand of KP. In future the production is expected to increase further based on the commencement of EWT production from Makori East-1 and Tolanj X-1.
MOL has finalised the installation of Makori Gas Processing Facilities (GPF) in TAL block, which will have a capacity to process 30,000 bbl/d of oil/condensate and 150 mmcfd of gas. After the installation of the gas processing facilities, the company will be producing/extracting up to 300-350 tons of LPG per day. According to industry sources, the TAL Joint Venture (JV) is to install LPG plant at Makori gas field and intends to expand its production/processing facilities to cater for the additional production from existing fields under appraisal and any upcoming discovery from the area.
Total local production of LPG stands at roughly 450,000 tons per year of which refineries accounted for 55 percent, while gas fields contribute about 45 percent. "Up to 80,000 tons of LPG is imported, while another 25,000 tons is smuggled into the country from Turkmenistan and Iran," sources said.
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