{"id":24942,"date":"2025-11-19T18:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=24942"},"modified":"2025-11-19T18:12:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:12:33","slug":"ecc-allows-turkish-firm-to-work-on-stalled-offshore-exploration-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2025\/11\/19\/ecc-allows-turkish-firm-to-work-on-stalled-offshore-exploration-block\/","title":{"rendered":"ECC allows Turkish firm to work on stalled offshore exploration block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong class=\"location-names\">ISLAMABAD:<\/strong>The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) on Tuesday allowed a Turkish firm to operate an offshore exploration block and extended the licence period of the zone.Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) is the operator of the offshore block, but it has failed to start work for the last four years. Consequently, the ECC permitted Turkish Petroleum Overseas Company (TPOC) to kick off work on the Eastern Offshore Block-C.The ECC approved PPL&#8217;s request for assigning participating interests in the block \u2013 a significant milestone in Pakistan&#8217;s offshore exploration efforts. Under the new arrangement, the participating interests will be held by TPOC with a 25% share, PPL with 35%, Mari Energies with 20% and Oil &amp; Gas Development Company (OGDC) with 20%.This will bring international offshore operating experience to Pakistan&#8217;s exploration landscape and is expected to enhance technical capabilities, operational efficiency and overall project delivery. The block contains drill-ready prospects, which will be pursued by the consortium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD:The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) on Tuesday allowed a Turkish firm to operate an offshore exploration block and extended the licence period of the zone.Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) is the operator of the offshore block, but it has failed to start work for the last four years. Consequently, the ECC permitted Turkish Petroleum Overseas Company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24944,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24942\/revisions\/24944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}