ISLAMABAD: No Aramco site has been commissioned anywhere in Pakistan so far. A formal announcement will be made in this regard at an appropriate time.

This was stated by Zeeshan Tayyeb, Chief Operating Officer, Gas & Oil Pakistan Ltd (GO) in response to a misleading picture and news circulating on social media. GO a business partner of the Saudi oil giant Aramco, in Pakistan, has said that no site has been commissioned and the picture is of some other site outside Pakistan.

Aramco, one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies completed its acquisition of a 40% equity stake in Gas & Oil Pakistan Ltd. earlier this year.