OGDCL Finds Oil and Gas in Khairpur: 12.8m Cubic Feet a DayBusiness

The find was made in the Basal Sands of the Lower Goru Formation, within the Bitrism Exploration Licence. OGDCL operates the block with a 95 percent working interest, while its joint venture partner, Government Holdings (Private) Limited, holds the remaining 5 percent.

Announcing the discovery in a notification, the company said it was speeding up work to connect the well to the national gas gathering system so that commercial production could begin at the earliest. Bringing a new well online quickly matters for Pakistan, where domestic gas output has been falling while demand from homes, industry and power plants remains high.

The new well sits in the same exploration block that has already delivered results for the company. OGDCL announced a gas and condensate discovery at the nearby Bitrism East-1 well on 1 October 2025, and that well was brought into production on 22 October this year. It is currently producing about 7 million cubic feet of gas a day and 200 barrels of condensate daily, with the gas processed at the company’s Sinjhoro plant before entering the Sui Southern Gas Company network.

Exploration wells in the Bitrism block have been drilled into the Lower Goru Formation, a rock layer that has become one of OGDCL’s most productive hunting grounds in Sindh. The company had already spudded the Bitrism Northwest-1 well during the first quarter of the current financial year, alongside work on the country’s first pilot horizontal shale gas well, according to a corporate briefing reported earlier this month.

The discovery comes at a time when OGDCL’s production is rising. The company reported that its average daily net crude oil output reached 35,494 barrels a day in the first quarter of 2026-27, up 13 percent on a year earlier, while natural gas production rose 14 percent to 732 million cubic feet a day.

For Pakistan’s energy sector, every addition to domestic supply helps. The country imports a large share of its energy, including liquefied natural gas, and new local discoveries can ease pressure on foreign exchange reserves while improving supply security. Whether the Bitrism Northwest-1 find grows into a significant producing asset will depend on further appraisal work and how steadily the well flows once it is connected to the system.

OGDCL is Pakistan’s biggest exploration and production company by reserves, acreage and output, and it has been pushing to convert recent discoveries into production more quickly, including by laying its own flowlines to processing plants rather than waiting for outside contractors.