In an effort to ease its ever-growing energy crisis, Pakistan has cast its eye toward Qatar in the hope of securing 200mn cfd of LNG imports from end-2015.

To date, Pakistan does not have any LNG import infrastructure. But the country’s Petroleum Minister Shahid Khan Abbasi says steady progress is being made on a new terminal, which he expects will be completed by the middle of next year. (CONTINUED - 297 WORDS)