ISLAMABAD, June 23: The Petronas Carigali Pakistan Ltd (PCPL) on Monday announced that it has made a second discovery of gas in the Mubarak Block, located in Ghotki district.

The discovery was made at the Saqib-1 A well, which was spud in October 2007 and drilled to the planned total depth of 3,780 metres. The well was successfully tested and flowed between 13.4 million and 25.2 million standard cubic feet of gas per day and between 47.5 barrels and 63.9 barrels of condensate per day.

According to an official announcement, the Mubarak Block is being explored by a partnership of PCPL (57 per cent), ENI Pakistan Ltd (38 per cent) and Pakistan’s Government Holdings (Private) Ltd (five per cent). The PCPL is the operator of the Block.

Previous exploration activities resulted in the discovery of the Rehmat-1 well in 2001, which was developed and brought on stream in 2005.

Subsequently, the partners decided to drill a new exploratory well, the Saqib-1 A, after extensive evaluation of the block and it would be brought into production by 2009.