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Legal and regulatory position reviewed to 20 September 2026 Pakistan’s Petroleum Policy Is Where Geology Meets Contract A petroleum prospect may begin with geology, but a petroleum investment begins with…
There Is No Single “Petroleum Act” That Tells the Whole Story A foreign company approaching Pakistan’s upstream petroleum sector for the first time can be forgiven for expecting to find…
Updated to 2026 Pakistan has been exploring for petroleum for well over a century. Its upstream history encompasses colonial concessions, the 1915 Khaur oil discovery, the transformative discovery of natural…
September 2026 Update: The Hypothetical Hormuz Crisis Has Become Real When this analysis was first published in March 2026, the central legal question was what would happen if escalating conflict…
A practical legal guide for E&P companies, foreign investors, gas purchasers, pipeline developers and energy-sector participants Pakistan’s Petroleum Exploration and Production Policy 2012 remains one of the principal instruments governing…
There is something irresistible about a good energy story. “The world is running out of oil.” “Oil is finished.” “Electric vehicles will kill petroleum.” “OPEC controls the price.” “Storage tanks…
Pakistan’s rivers create an obvious economic proposition: water passing through mountainous terrain can produce electricity for decades, reduce exposure to imported fuels and support a substantial domestic power-generation industry. What…