A delegation of Tajik Trans Gas led by Director General Sharofiddinov called on Syed Naveed Qamar, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources who is on a visit to Tajikistan. Tajik Trans Gas, which is state owned exploration and production Oil and Gas Company during the call on the Minister in Dushanbe offered that Pakistani public and private sector exploration oil and gas companies could come to Tajikistan to explore vistas of immense opportunity in their country.
They proposed that Pakistani public and private sector oil and gas companies could form a joint venture to jointly explore and develop the oil and gas finds in Tajikistan. Syed Naveed Qamar assured the delegation of Tajik Gas on behalf of his ministry and Government of Pakistan to extend all possible support and assistance in its quest of exploration of hydrocarbon in Tajikistan.
The Minister said that he would ask both public and private sector oil and gas E&P companies to visit the Tajikistan at their first available opportunity to meet the relevant authorities and Tajik Gas to work out the feasibility of formation of joint venture to explore hydrocarbons in Tajikistan. The Minister said that E&P sector in Pakistan had developed into a dynamic and the most mature sector at the back of many successful exploratory finds of hydrocarbons in Pakistan to its credit.
E&P companies of Pakistan had the know-how and expertise par excellence to undertake all sorts of exploration activities particularly offshore, he added. During the meeting, Dr Zubaydullo N Zubaydov Ambassador of Tajikistan to Pakistan, Khalid Usman Kaisar, Ambassador of Pakistan to Tajikistan and Hilal A Raza MD Inter State Gas System Ltd of Pakistan were also present.-PR