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 PAKISTAN
South Asia
Pakistan has four regions; Sindh in the SE, Punjab in
the NE, Balochistan in the SW and the NW Frontier Province. Three
sedimentary areas lie in these regions, called the Lower, Middle and
Upper Indus basins.
 Hydrocarbons are thus produced in a broad band from the
lower Sindh east of Karachi in the south to the Potwar plateau in
Punjab, an area southwest of Islamabad, in the north.
The first well drilled in the Indian sub-continent was in
Pakistan in 1868 and oil was discovered in the Upper Indus in 1914 but
significant production did not begin until the 1950s, peaking at around
10,000 Bbls per day. It was in 1981 when Union Texas first discovered
oil in the Lower Indus that production increased substantially and a
series of discoveries here maintained production up to a peak in 1991.
 Meanwhile between 1952 and 1960 large reserves of natural
gas were discovered in the Middle Indus, including Sui, a giant gas
field. Further more recent gas finds, including Bhit and Zamzama, have
ensured that Pakistan will continue to be a major gas producer.
Offshore: Pakistan has no offshore production
however the eastern half of its offshore region extends over a wide
shelf where the Indus River drains into the Arabian Sea at Karachi. Only
eight wells have been drilled in the delta. Pakcan-1, drilled in 1985,
flowed limited volumes of gas from Indus sediments and a deepwater well
was drilled in 2004. New exploration programmes are proceeding.
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CAPITAL
Islamabad
Population
165.8 million
Onshore area
(000's sq kms)
803.9
Offshore area
(000's sq kms)
NEW
OIL PEAK YEAR
1991 |
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