SNGPL Competitors

To revive exploration in the energy sector the Government of Pakistan signed a long-term loan Agreement on 04 March 1961 with the USSR, whereby Pakistan received 27 million Rubles to finance equipment and services of Soviet experts for exploration. Pursuant to the Agreement, OGDC was created under an Ordinance dated 20th September 1961. The Corporation was charged with responsibility to undertake a well thought out and systematic exploratory programme and to plan and promote Pakistan's oil and gas prospects. As an instrument of policy in the oil and gas sector, the Corporation followed the Government instructions in matters of exploration and development. The day to day management was however, vested in a five-member Board of Directors appointed by the Government. In the initial stages the financial resources were arranged by the GOP as the OGDC lacked the ways and means to raise the risk capital. The first 10 to 15 years were devoted to development of manpower and building of infrastructure to undertake much larger exploration programmes.

Pakistan’s leading gas utility company, SSGC delivers natural gas to more than 2.4 million customers in the provinces of Sindh and Baluchistan. The entire system encompasses more than 120 towns and 930 villages that are geographically spread out across different types of terrain. SSGC uses a transmission network of more than 3,800 km of pipeline to bring natural gas from the wellheads to its distribution points and then uses more than 38,000 km of distribution pipeline to serve its industrial, commercial, and domestic customers in urban and rural southern Pakistan.

The pioneer of the natural gas industry in the country, Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) has been a frontline player in the energy sector since the mid-1950s. As a major supplier of natural gas, PPL today contributes over 20 percent of the country’s total natural gas supplies besides producing crude oil, NGL and LPG. PPL operates 12 producing fields across the country at Sui (Pakistan’s largest gas field), Adhi, Kandhkot, Chachar, Mazarani, Adam, Adam West, Shadadpur, Shahdadpur West, Shahdadpur East, Zafir and Fazal and holds working interest in 18 partner-operated fields. As a major stakeholder in securing a safe energy future for the country, PPL pursues an aggressive exploration agenda aimed at enhancing hydrocarbon recovery and replenish reserves. PPL together with its subsidiaries has a portfolio of 47 exploration assets of which the company operates 28, including one contract in Iraq, while 19 blocks, comprising three offshore leases in Pakistan and two onshore concessions in Yemen, are operated by joint venture partners. Over the years, PPL has developed a reliable foundation for providing clean and safe energy through sustainable exploitation of indigenous natural resources while adhering to best practices of corporate governance and employee health and safety and constraining the ecological footprint of its operations. As a result, 16 fields and facilities are certified for ISO 9001 QMS and 13 for ISO 14001 EMS and OHSAS 18001. PPL has played a significant role as a responsible corporate citizen since the inception of its commercial activities in Sui by establishing Sui Model School in 1957 for children of workers and local communities. In 2001, PPL Welfare Trust was founded to provide geographical and thematic diversity to the company’s CSR programme, which focuses on education, health, infrastructure development and livelihood generation for uplift of disadvantaged communities living around operating areas and large urban centres of the country.