Rerate13 Dec 2019 06:19
The Sindh government has planned to launch Thar Coal Block-VI as a national strategic project under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to develop coal mine, install a 1,320 MW coal-fired power project, produce gas, urea and diesel.
The area of Block-VI is 66.1 square kilometres and it contains estimated total coal reserves of 1.4 billion tonnes.
This emerged at a meeting held here at the energy department between Energy Minister Imtiaz Shaikh and a UK-based company, Oracle, represented by its CEO Naheed Memon.