Petroleum division to auction 20 blocks for oil, gas exploration<\/a><\/p>\nPakistan was ranked as the ninth best country when it comes to shale oil and gas potential, and reserves have been discovered in Talhar, Chiltan, and Sembar. However, extracting these reserves is a process that requires major finances and resources, so the potential will have to be weighed accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Islamabad: The state-owned Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDC) is making preparations for drilling shale oil and gas reserves in Hyderabad district, according to a news source. This exploration project will take place at the Kunnar Pasakhi field this year in December. An OGDC official revealed that this will be the company\u2019s pilot project, and will be carried forward if it is up to the mark when it comes to environmental and safety standards. Kunnar Pasakhi is already producing oil and gas through conventional means, and OGDC plans to explore its potential further, in order to increase Pakistan\u2019s domestic production of shale oil and gas. Read: Petroleum division to auction 20 blocks for oil, gas exploration Pakistan was ranked as the ninth best country when it comes to shale oil and gas potential, and reserves have been discovered in Talhar, Chiltan, and Sembar. However, extracting these reserves is a process that requires major finances and resources, so the potential will have to be weighed accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":44599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13067,13066],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-oil-reserves","8":"tag-shale-oil-and-gas"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
OGDC to explore shale oil, gas reserves in Hyderabad - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The state-owned Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDC) is making preparations for drilling shale oil and gas reserves in Hyderabad district,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ogdc-to-explore-shale-oil-gas-reserves-in-hyderabad.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"OGDC to explore shale oil, gas reserves in Hyderabad - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The state-owned Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDC) is making preparations for drilling shale oil and gas reserves in Hyderabad district,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ogdc-to-explore-shale-oil-gas-reserves-in-hyderabad.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News & Pakistan Property News & Latest Updates - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"atif_zameen_dev\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-09-21T05:00:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Webp.net-compress-image-3-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shanzay Asim\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ZameenProperty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ZameenProperty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shanzay Asim\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"OGDC to explore shale oil, gas reserves in Hyderabad - Zameen News","description":"Islamabad: The state-owned Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDC) is making preparations for drilling shale oil and gas reserves in Hyderabad district,","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ogdc-to-explore-shale-oil-gas-reserves-in-hyderabad.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"OGDC to explore shale oil, gas reserves in Hyderabad - Zameen News","og_description":"Islamabad: The state-owned Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDC) is making preparations for drilling shale oil and gas reserves in Hyderabad district,","og_url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ogdc-to-explore-shale-oil-gas-reserves-in-hyderabad.html","og_site_name":"Pakistan Real Estate News & Pakistan Property News & Latest Updates - Zameen News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK","article_author":"atif_zameen_dev","article_published_time":"2019-09-21T05:00:52+00:00","og_image":[{"width":600,"height":350,"url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Webp.net-compress-image-3-2.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Shanzay Asim","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@ZameenProperty","twitter_site":"@ZameenProperty","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Shanzay Asim","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ogdc-to-explore-shale-oil-gas-reserves-in-hyderabad.html#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ogdc-to-explore-shale-oil-gas-reserves-in-hyderabad.html"},"author":{"name":"Shanzay Asim","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/32f7a47cf2283e1bb9d09fca10cd6b74"},"headline":"OGDC to explore shale oil, gas reserves in Hyderabad","datePublished":"2019-09-21T05:00:52+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ogdc-to-explore-shale-oil-gas-reserves-in-hyderabad.html"},"wordCount":175,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ogdc-to-explore-shale-oil-gas-reserves-in-hyderabad.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Webp.net-compress-image-3-2.jpg","keywords":["Oil reserves","shale oil and gas"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ogdc-to-explore-shale-oil-gas-reserves-in-hyderabad.html#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ogdc-to-explore-shale-oil-gas-reserves-in-hyderabad.html","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ogdc-to-explore-shale-oil-gas-reserves-in-hyderabad.html","name":"OGDC to explore shale oil, gas reserves in Hyderabad - Zameen News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ogdc-to-explore-shale-oil-gas-reserves-in-hyderabad.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ogdc-to-explore-shale-oil-gas-reserves-in-hyderabad.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Webp.net-compress-image-3-2.jpg","datePublished":"2019-09-21T05:00:52+00:00","description":"Islamabad: The state-owned Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDC) is making preparations for drilling shale oil and gas reserves in Hyderabad district,","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ogdc-to-explore-shale-oil-gas-reserves-in-hyderabad.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ogdc-to-explore-shale-oil-gas-reserves-in-hyderabad.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ogdc-to-explore-shale-oil-gas-reserves-in-hyderabad.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Webp.net-compress-image-3-2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Webp.net-compress-image-3-2.jpg","width":600,"height":350},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ogdc-to-explore-shale-oil-gas-reserves-in-hyderabad.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"OGDC to explore shale oil, gas reserves in Hyderabad"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/","name":"Pakistan Real Estate News & Pakistan Property News & Latest Updates - Zameen News","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Zameen.com","alternateName":"Zameen","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/upload\/2015\/09\/Zameen.com_-_Logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/upload\/2015\/09\/Zameen.com_-_Logo.png","width":600,"height":300,"caption":"Zameen.com"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK","https:\/\/x.com\/ZameenProperty","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zameenpk\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/32f7a47cf2283e1bb9d09fca10cd6b74","name":"Shanzay Asim","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d48096a6a4132dfadc6dec92fed23d238b12d0d1ae004dec64919017069f6321?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d48096a6a4132dfadc6dec92fed23d238b12d0d1ae004dec64919017069f6321?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d48096a6a4132dfadc6dec92fed23d238b12d0d1ae004dec64919017069f6321?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Shanzay Asim"},"description":"Shanzay Asim is a content developer at Zameen.com.","sameAs":["atif_zameen_dev"],"url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/author\/shanzay-asim"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55432,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55431\/revisions\/55432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55431"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=55431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}