Fuel extraction in Pakistan
[1] As per BP' Statistical Review of World Energy 2016, at the end of 2015 Pakistan had the following proved reserves of fuels: 0.5 Trillion cu m of natural gas and 2.07 Billion tons of coal (sub-bituminous and lignite).
[3] Oil production was entirely confined to the Potwar Plateau till 1981, when Union Texas Pakistan subsidiary discovered its first oil-field in Lower Sindh.
[9][10][11] Natural gas production is at a relatively high level and remaining reserves are estimated to be about 885.3 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.).
Coal was first discovered across Pakistan and the rest of South Asia in the 1880s and was used by the British-owned railway companies under colonial rule.
Later, post-colonial Pakistan had used coal to fuel its industry from independence to the discovery of the Baluchistan's Sui gas field in 1952 and the Toot oilfield in 1964.
According to one news paper the death toll rose up to 45,[16] though majority agree upon that it ranged from 40 to 45 people.
Special measures are being employed to reduce the resulting fly ash, carbon footprint and sulphur fume emission problems after it is burnt.
Lignite is a low-grade, sulfurous coal that is generally used in modified industrial furnaces to generate heat for boilers, coke oven heaters, brick kilns, etc.
[17] Musakhel Balochistan (Kingri-Aram-Safa Coal fields) Lakhara Dengari Sor-range Nowshera (Shaidu, Khawrai, Pethawo area) Shahrig Sonda Sindh's Thar desert and lignite mines in Kingri Balochistan will also be expanded soon for industrial usage.
Special measures are being employed to reduce the resulting fly ash, carbon footprint and sulphur fume emission problems after it is burnt.
Lignite is a low grade, sulphurous coal that is generally used in modified industrial furnaces to generate heat for boilers, coke oven heaters, brick kilns, etc.
[17][18] Nowadays lignite use in Humic Acid formation from last three years especially of Kingri Area of Balochistan Pakistan has had a long history of exporting small amounts of uranium to the West.
The Wahi Pandi, Karunuk (Sehwan), and Rehman Dhora (Aamri) mines in the Kirthar Range, Sindh and the Shanawah Deposit, Karak in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are being opened up to meet Pakistan's rising need for uranium, which these sources are issuing at an ore grade: 0.04% Uranium mineral purity rate.
[citation needed] Baghalchur is a town in Dera Ghazi Khan District, Punjab, Pakistan.
