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Conceptual Flow Diagram of “Blue Ammonia” Supply Chain Demonstration Saudi Aramco's blue
(Duration: August 2020 – October 2020) ammonia supply chain
to Japan. Source:
N 2 company website.
Natural 50 kW Micro Gas Turbine
(Koriyama, Japan)
Gas H 2 Blue N 2
Ammonia +
Hydrogen CO 2 Ammonia H O
2
Plant, Jubail Plant, Jubail 2 MW Gas Turbine
(Yokohama, Japan)

CO 2 Capture Co-firing in a Boiler
Plant, Jubail (Aioi, Japan)

Utilization

Enhanced Oil Recovery Methanol
Pilot Plant, Uthmaniyah Plant, Jubail
Saudi Aramco: Company General Use

Pakistan seeks digital answers to domestic Makori East reserves climbed by 2.9mn barrels
upstream dilemma and Shahdadpur increased by 7.57mn barrels.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has However, the gains were offset by a 14mn barrel
thrown his weight behind a new digital manage- drop at Makhdumpur Deep field.
ment system for the upstream sector, amid fall- Pakistan produced 634bn cubic feet (18bn
ing crude oil reserves and a rising dependency cubic metres) of gas during the six-month
on natural gas imports. period, but was able to completely replace the
During a committee meeting covering the oil output, Sohail said, pointing to a 332.5 bcf gain
and gas sector last week, Khan said the govern- at Shahdadpur, 149 bcf at Miano and 30 bcf at
ment’s exploration management system (EMS) Buzdar South.
would help boost access to domestic oil and gas The government has set a financial year 2020-
reserves. This, he said on October 2, would help 2021 oil production target of 31.12mn barrels
cut government spending on energy supplies and a gas production target of 1.58 trillion cubic
while driving down oil and gas prices for the feet.
public. Islamabad’s efforts to boost the domestic
The Pakistani Petroleum Division unveiled upstream come as the country gears up to buy
the EMS in August, describing it at the time as more spot liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes.
a multi-user geographic information systems State-owned Pakistan LNG Ltd (PLL) said on
(GIS) database application that would allow the its website this week that it was seeking up to six
Directorate of Petroleum Concession to access cargoes for December, ahead of the country’s
real-time upstream data. The system was devel- winter demand spike. PLL has set a November
oped in collaboration of international oil and gas 2 deadline for bids to be submitted, noting that
technology company LMKR. it wanted each cargo to deliver 140,000 cubic
The government department noted that EMS metres of the fuel.
contained a “planned vs actual” wells dashboard The deliveries – if they all go ahead – will be
that would allow the government to monitor the most the country has ever handled in a single
company performance against their commit- month, an unnamed PLL source told Reuters on
ments as well as a daily and weekly field pro- October 5.
duction dashboard. The government’s focus on
technology comes as the country’s oil reserves If you’d like to read more about the key events shaping
continue to decline, while national gas reserves Asia’s oil and gas sector then please click here for
flatline. NewsBase’s AsianOil Monitor .
Pakistan’s net oil reserves had declined by
5% to 540mn barrels by the end of June, local Saudi Arabia goes into blue ammonia
brokerage house Topline Securities reported in The Middle East and Africa have largely lagged
mid-September. behind in developing clean technologies. Nev-
Pakistan produced 13.2mn barrels during the ertheless, Saudi Arabia announced in late Sep-
first half of the year, local media outlet The News tember that it had made the world’s first trial
quoted Topline Securities CEO Muhammad shipment of blue ammonia to Japan. The project
Sohail as saying. is spearheaded by national oil giant Saudi Ara-
The executive noted 1.82mn barrels of mco and its petrochemicals arm SABIC.
reserves were added at the Kandiari, Ranjho, Natural gas was used to produce hydrogen
Dhok Hussain, Benari and Yasar fields, while at a plant in the Saudi port of Jubail and this

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