‘LNG for Pakistan’ conference today

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Petroleum Nadeem Babar will inaugurate a daylong conference on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) today, January 31st, 2020 (Friday) with special focus on countrywide gas shortfall amid severe spell of cold weather.

The Energy Update, which has to its credit 10 editions of Power Generation Conferences and four International Wind Energy Conferences, is going to organize the daylong seminar titled ‘LNG for Pakistan’. Naeem Qureshi, chairman of the organising committee of the conference, said that the proceedings of the conference would go a long way in determining the true role of LNG in effectively bridging energy shortfall.

He said that speakers and participants of different sessions of the conference had been chosen in a manner that they represented every segment of the energy sector of the country so to have a meaningful dialogue on potential and future of LNG as a reliable energy resource.

He said the conference would discuss every aspect related to LNG sector in Pakistan be it its import, storage, transmission, supply, regulation, and pricing so that it becomes a viable segment of the energy equation of Pakistan. One of the major focus of the conference would be protection of legitimate interests of end-users of gas supply in Pakistan so that the new gas pricing should not become exploitative.

Other prominent speakers of the conference include Federal Secretary for Petroleum Asad Hayuddin, Irfan, Federal Secretary, Power Division Ministry of Energy (GOP), Dr. Nawaz Ahmed Virk, Director LG, Petroleum Division M0E, Saquib Ejaz Hussain, CEO –EHS and Adviser NFEH. Syed Akthar Ali, Energy Expert, Khurrum Mirza of PNSC, Fasih Ahmed, CEO, Pakistan Gasport Ltd., Saad Kazi of Tabeer Energy, Capt. Tariq Haleem, Chairman Shipping & Logistics – FPCCI, Shaikh Imran ul Haq, former MD, PSO, Suryan Wirya Simunovic, Senior Vice President, Golar LNG, Owais Mir, CEO, DEA, Ammar Shah, GM - Engro Elengy, Ammad Ghafoor, BDM, Aveva, Kosuke Makino, Chief Executive (CE) Tabeer Energy/Mitsubishi Corporation, Mubin Saulat, MD, InterState Gas Company, Christophe Malat, Senior VP Upstream and Mainstream LNG & MD, Hanas LNG Pte Ltd. Saad Ahmed Qazi, Head of Regulatory Affairs – Tabeer Energy/Mitsubishi Corporation, Mohsin Siddiqui CEO Granada USA, M. Rajpur MD GSA, Fatima Khushnud CEO IPPA & others.