{"id":61127,"date":"2020-02-09T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=61127"},"modified":"2020-02-07T17:52:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T12:52:26","slug":"ppl-discovers-hydrocarbon-reserves-kalat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ppl-discovers-hydrocarbon-reserves-kalat.html","title":{"rendered":"PPL discovers hydrocarbon reserves in Kalat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ppl-discovers-gas-reserves-in-sindh-balochistan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) (opens in a new tab)\">Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL)<\/a> has reported on its discovery of hydrocarbon reserves in its first exploratory well Margand X-1 \u2013 situated in the Kalat District of Balochistan, a news source reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ogdcl-reports-discovery-four-hydrocarbon-deposit-sites.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"OGDCL reports discovery of four hydrocarbon deposit sites (opens in a new tab)\">OGDCL reports discovery of four hydrocarbon deposit sites<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the results of wireline logs, Modular Dynamics Testing (MDT) was employed, which proved the presence of hydrocarbon. Consequently, drilling at Margand X-1 began on June 30 last year and was done to the depth of 4,500 metres inside Chiltan limestone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/funds-allocated-for-roads-dams-other-projects-in-attock.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Funds allocated for roads, dams, other development projects in Attock (opens in a new tab)\">Funds allocated for roads, dams, other development projects in Attock<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drill Stem Test (DST) showed \u2018a flow of 10.7 million cubic feet of gas per day (mmcfd) at 64\/64 inches choke size with flowing wellhead pressure at 516 pounds per square inch (psi) and 132 barrels of liquid per day\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-to-set-up-frontier-zone-for-oil-gas-exploration-along-durand-line.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Govt to set up \u2018Frontier Zone\u2019 for oil &amp; gas exploration along Durand Line (opens in a new tab)\">Govt to set up \u2018Frontier Zone\u2019 for oil &amp; gas exploration along Durand Line<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to conjectures,\nthe reservoir might have a potential deposit of one trillion cubic feet;\nhowever, PPL has not announced the actual size of the hydrocarbon potential. A\nPPL official said that the estimate of hydrocarbon reserve could not be guessed\nuntil the drilling reached the targeted depth and more tests were conducted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) has reported on its discovery of hydrocarbon reserves in its first exploratory well Margand X-1 \u2013 situated in the Kalat District of Balochistan, a news source reported. Read: OGDCL reports discovery of four hydrocarbon deposit sites After the results of wireline logs, Modular Dynamics Testing (MDT) was employed, which proved the presence of hydrocarbon. Consequently, drilling at Margand X-1 began on June 30 last year and was done to the depth of 4,500 metres inside Chiltan limestone. Read: Funds allocated for roads, dams, other development projects in Attock Drill Stem Test (DST) showed \u2018a flow of 10.7 million cubic feet of gas per day (mmcfd) at 64\/64 inches choke size with flowing wellhead pressure at 516 pounds per square inch (psi) and 132 barrels of liquid per day\u2019. Read: Govt to set up \u2018Frontier Zone\u2019 for oil &amp; gas exploration along Durand Line According to conjectures, the reservoir might have a potential deposit of one trillion cubic feet; however, PPL has not announced the actual size of the hydrocarbon potential. A PPL official said that the estimate of hydrocarbon reserve could not be guessed until the drilling reached the targeted depth and more tests were&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":61129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1952,18306,18315,18305,18307],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-balochistan","8":"tag-hydrocarbon","9":"tag-hydrocarbon-reserves","10":"tag-pakistan-petroleum-limited-ppl","11":"tag-reserves-in-kalat"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PPL discovers hydrocarbon reserves in Kalat - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) has reported on its discovery of hydrocarbon reserves in its first exploratory well Margand X-1 \u2013 situated in\" \/>\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\/ppl-discovers-hydrocarbon-reserves-kalat.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PPL discovers hydrocarbon reserves in Kalat - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) has reported on its discovery of hydrocarbon reserves in its first exploratory well Margand X-1 \u2013 situated in\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ppl-discovers-hydrocarbon-reserves-kalat.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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