Published on, Sept. 6 -- September 6, 2025 1:03 AM

The Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL), one of the country's leading oil and gas exploration and production companies, has discovered "significant" oil and gas reserves in the Attock district of the eastern Punjab province, it said on Friday.

This landmark discovery at Dhok Sultan-03 well is not only a major milestone for PPL and its partner, the Government Holdings Private Limited (GHPL), but also marks the second deepest oil discovery in naturally fractured carbonate in the Pothohar region, according to PPL. The exploration firm, as operator of the Dhok Sultan block with a 75 percent working interest (WI) alongside GHPL's 25 percent WI, spudded the well on January 18. Drilled to a depth...