Trump brags of ‘massive’ oil deal in Pakistan – but drilling has not found any | Pakistan

Donald Trump Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the country’s powerful army chief Asim Munir’i Oval office, this week, the new friendship between the United States and Pakistan was fully displayed this week.

This, which was cold shoulder by consecutive US presidents, has been invited to Washington for more than six years for more than six years. In addition, this year, Munir, who did not have the role of an official government, was an unprecedented meeting with Trump, who said, many of which was really lying in Pakistan.

Since its re -election, Islamabad’s charm with Trump condemned the US to surrender a high -profile member of the Islamic State in Afghanistan and to prevent the US president to prevent the enmity between India and Pakistan, and even nominate the Nobel Peace Prize for Trump’s efforts.

Nevertheless, the most effective thing is that Pakistan’s alleged natural resources – ie oil, minerals and gas – discovery for us. In July, Trump, the social media platform in the real Social, “We made an agreement with the Pakistan country, they will work together to improve Pakistan and the United States’s large oil reserves. We are in the process of choosing the oil company that will lead this partnership.”

The messaging was confirmed by the US Chargé d’Affares Natalie Baker in Islamabad, who said to the local media that Pakistan Pakistan showed great interest in oil, gas and mineral sectors in line with the vision of President Donald Trump ”.

Pakistan has already received awards from the promise of oil. After an agreement in August, Trump gave Pakistan a 19% generous tariff for imported goods, the lowest level of all South Asian nations and a tariff of 50% of his neighbor and the punishing tariffs faced by Nemesis India.

This month, although there is no definite data on the mineral reserves of the country, an agreement of $ 500 million (£ 370 million) was announced to invest in Pakistan’s newly -starting minerals, including copper and rare lands.

Nevertheless, it is an oil promise that leaves experts and former government ministers even more surprising. They emphasize that the world’s largest oil companies are not reliable evidence that Pakistan has important, unused oil reserves despite the largest oil companies trying to find them.

Moin Raza Khan, a geobilimist and former general manager in Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) in the forefront of Pakistan oil discovery, said: “Trump’s large oil reserves have nothing to do with reality. Without the support of any data or evidence, we don’t know where these mass reserves are.

Khan was among the experts emphasizing that there was no commercially applicable oil wells in Pakistani soil despite more than half a century discovery and drilling in the land and open sea. While there are some small oil stores, they produce about 65,000 barrels per day. In contrast, Saudi Arabia produces about 4 billion barrels per year.

This is far away from Pakistan’s potential as Petrostat for the first time. The country imports more than 80% of oil, one of the largest drainage in the state polls, and encourages successive leaders to print for oil discovery.

Khan Over the years, more than 30 international companies, including Total, Shell and Exxonmobil, have come to Pakistan with the hope of finding oil, but finally left. because of High cost and security discovery and low award risk.

In 2015, in a survey conducted by the US Energy Administration, the Lower Indus Basin in Pakistan predicted that 9 billion barrels of Pakistani Petroleum Foreign Minister Ali Pervaiz Malik could have been referred to by Pakistani Pervaiz Malik.

However, this questionnaire was questioned by oil companies. In 2019, multinational oil companies worked with the PPL to find the Open Sea of ​​Oil and Gas Reserves, Exxonmobil and WIDE. However, after spending more than $ 100 million in Kekra-1 Indus G block, nothing was found except for a water bed.

Khan, who chaired the PPL during the last unsuccessful oil discovery, said: “A total of 1.2 billion barrels of oil have been discovered – this is nothing – and they claim that they can find it 100 times in the next three years.

“This is impossible. There is no magic wand to increase Pakistan’s reserves.”

Islamabad refused to comment on questions about Pakistan’s oil reserves.

Despite the lack of new evidence, the country stands out with the discovery of 40 new open sea and 31 oil and gas, which will be given on October 31st. US companies are among the companies invited to bid.

Ga Sabri, a former Federal Secretary of the Ministry of Petrol and former General Manager Petroleum Concession, described the allegations of major oil reserves as “political cheats ve and became skeptical of the success of the auction of the oil block.

Most of Pakistan’s unused oil and gas reserves are said to be in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Belochistan regions in the midst of riots in which the Taliban and separatist militants and foreign companies are routinely targeted.

Sabri said: “When it comes to the discovery of new areas, there are high security risks.”

“Even if the US drills and starts now, it will take at least two to thirty years and hundreds of millions of dollars to make this discovery – and no one can say that there will be definite reserves”.

Sabri said that the success of Pakistan’s black oil drilling was nothing but “legends ..