Pakistan, Nov. 20 -- Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL), one of the country's leading energy companies, is reclaiming land from the sea to create a launch pad, which will allow the company to accelerate oil and gas exploration, reported Bloomberg on Wednesday.

As per the report, the artificial island will be located 300km (190 miles) off the coast of Sindh, PPL's General Manager Exploration and Core Business Development, Arshad Palekar, told the international media outlet on the sidelines of an oil and gas conference in Islamabad.

"Planned with a height of six feet, the platform will prevent high tides from interrupting round-the-clock exploration work," he said.

The PPL official shared that the project, a first for Pakistan, builds on A...