THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF PAKISTAN 721 
 
Commissioning was scheduled for 1979, and natural gas from the Man field
was to be used as feedstock. 
The Fauji Foundation was setting an ammonia-urea complex at Machi Goth near
Sadiqabad, Punjab, in 1979. The $270 million project, based on natural gas
from the Marl field, was to have the capacity to produce 250,000 nutrient
tons of N per year. 
The Pakistan Ajman Fertilizer Corp. proposed to set up a $300 million fertilizer
complex on the coast near Port Qasim, Baluchistan. The facility was to use
natural gas from the Sui field and imported phosphoric acid for the production
of urea and di-ammonium phosphate, The project was slated for completion
in 1981. 
NFC planned to build a fertilizer complex at Haripur, Northwest Frontier
Province, to produce 95,000 tons per year of urea based onSui gas feedatock
in one phase. A second phase was to add facilities for phosphoric acid and
mono-ammonium phosphate production utilizing domestic phosphate rock from
Kakul. No completion date for this project was announced by yearend 1979.

Phosphatic.—In 1978, the United Kingdom Ministry for Overseas Development
approved a $3.14 million grant for PD.NCB Consultants Ltd. to conduct further
exploration of the Hazara region phosphate deposits. PD-NCB completed investigations
in 1977 of the Kakul deposits and began development of a 57,000-ton-per-year
pilot program to supply phosphate rock to NFC's superphosphate plant at Jaranwalla.
The new, 2.5-year study, was to center on Dalola and Lagarban and determine
the feasibility of establishing a large-scale phosphate rock mine in the
area to feed the planned fertilizer complex at Haripur. 
Fluorite.—Commercial production of fluorite by the Baluchistan
Development
Authority commenced at Koh-e-Dilband in the Kalat District of Baluchistan
late in 
1978. 
Salt.—PMDC started exploitation of a new salt mine at Jatuna near
Khewa,
Punjab, in 1978. This brought salt production capacity from the Salt Range
to over 420,000 tons per year. Rock salt was also mined in the Preshawar
Division, NWFP. Twenty coastal operations produced solar evaporated marine
salt in 1978 and 1979. 
 
MINERAL FUELS 
 
Coal.—Coal was produced in all four provinces of Pakistan with
the
Salt Range and Makarwal coals from Sind and the Sor Range, Mach Kost, and
Sharigh collieries near Quetta, Baluchistan, the major con- 
tributors to the nation's output. PMDC planned to develop the Lakra coalfield
near Hyderabad to supply 1 million tons of coal per year for a planned 250-megawatt
power station at Jameshoro, Sind. Sharigh coal was to be used to augment
imported coking coal at the Pipri steel mill. 
- Natural Gas.—Over 80% of Pakistan's natural gas output came from
Pakistan Petroleum Ltd.'s (PPL) Sui gasfield in east central Baluchistan,
The Man gasfield produced over 40 million cubic feet per day exclusively
for the Dhakari fertilizer plant. Natural gas was also produced and recovered
from oilfields in the Potwar Basin. 
 Petroleum.—Domestic crude oil production increased from less than
10,000 barrels per day in mid-1978 to over 11,000 barrels per day by yearend
1979, but only supplied 10% to 12% of the nation's requirements. Pakistan
Oilfields Ltd.'s (POL) Meyal and Balkassar oilfields and OGDC's Toot oilfield
were the major contributors to the country's output in 1978 and 1979. OGDC
was committed to increasing Toot ouput to 9,500 barrels per day and completing
a 10 well development program at the Dhodak field to produce 22,500 barrels
per day by 1981. POL planned to increase Meyal's output to 17,000 barrels
per day by 1983. 
The PPL-Amoco Pakistan Exploration Co. joint venture discovered oil in 1978
in PPL's East Potwar concession area. Extensive testing on the discovery
well, Adhi 5, was conducted in 1978, and Adhi 6 was spudded about 6 miles
from Adhi 5 in 1979 to delineate the extent of the field. OGDL discovered
oil at Dhermund 1 in 1979 and was conducting test operations at yearend 
1979. 
Three petroleum refmeries were in operation in Pakistan in 1978 and 1979,
and a fourth was under construction. Two Government-owned oil refineries
near Karachi processed imported crude oil. Attock Oil Co. Ltd. (AOC) processed
domestic crude at its Rawalpindi facility near Islamabad. AOC planned to
increase the Rawalpindi capacity by 20,000 barrels per day to accommodate
the increasing output from the Toot and Meyal oilflelds and the anticipated
production from the Adhi discovery. Crude oil was to be shipped by pipeline
to Multan where a new 40,000-barrel-per-day oil refinery was being built.

 
 ' Physical scientist, Branch of Foreign Data. 
 2Pakistans fiscal year is from July 1 to June 30. 
 ' Where necessary, values have been converted from Pakistani rupees (PRa)
to U.S. dollars at a rate of PBs 9.9=US$1.00.