Govt asked to rescue petroleum dealers from bankruptcy
ISLAMABAD: The Petroleum Dealers Association and All Pakistan CNG Association on Monday urged the government to intervene as petroleum dealers had reached...
Omar Ayub asks IPPs to lower power tariff
ISLAMABAD: Energy Minister Omar Ayub Khan on Monday held a meeting with the independent power producers (IPPs) to discuss lowering of tariff...
Saudi Arabia gets physical with Russia in underground oil bout
MOSCOW: Behind a Saudi-Russian truce to stabilise oil markets with a record output cut, market players are seeing the two production heavyweights...
Poor circular debt handling cost exchequer Rs4,082bn over 13 years
ISLAMABAD:  A committee formed to probe the losses in the power sector has alleged that the governments’ failures to contain the circular debt...
Oil climbs as Trump lays out reopening of virus-hit US
But prices found some support as traders headed into the weekend after Trump laid out guidelines for a reopening of the world's top economy — which accounts for the most virus deaths of any country.
IPPs may agree to tariff cut as negotiations with govt continue
ISLAMABAD: Some representatives of Independent Power Producers (IPPs) have expressed willingness to reduce power tariff and review power purchase agreements, Pakistan Today...
AEDB allows 18 entities to set up 653MW power plants
ISLAMABAD: The Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) has issued the letter of support (LOS) and the letter of intent (LOI) to 18...
Oil near 18-year lows on demand devastation warning
Oil languished at multi-year lows Thursday, with WTI crude close to its weakest level since 2002, as dire warnings about a virus-triggered...
Oil market falls too big to offset with output cuts, IAE warns
LONDON: The International Energy Agency (IEA) on Wednesday forecast a 29 million barrel per day (bpd) dive in April oil demand to...
Oil prices rise as Trump flags deeper output cuts
Oil prices rose Tuesday after US President Donald Trump said producers are considering cutting 20 million barrels per day — more than...
Record oil output cuts fail to make waves in coronavirus-hit market
SINGAPORE/LONDON: The minimal impact on oil prices from a global deal for record output cuts showed that oil producers have a mountain...
Saudi Arabia cuts May crude prices to Asia by $4.2 per barrel, says document
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia has announced its official crude pricing (OSP) for May, selling oil more cheaply to Asia, while keeping prices flat...
Oil prices jump after top producers agree output cuts
Oil prices jumped more than three percent Monday after top producers agreed to cut output to shore up energy markets battered by...
OPEC+ agrees largest ever oil output cut of 9.7 million bpd: sources
LONDON: OPEC, Russia and other oil producing nations agreed on Sunday to cut output by a record amount, representing around 10 per...
IPPAC refutes allegations of ‘foul play in power sector losses’
The Independent Power Producers Advisory Council (IPPAC) has categorically rejected the allegations being attributed in recent media reports on the Inquiry Committee’s...