Archive for January, 2010
OGDCL Pakistan on the road to failure in achieving targets of 2009- 2010
Posted by K. Shahzad in Economy on January 4, 2010
OGDCL Pakistan
OGDCL is an oil and gas company which is ran by Government of Pakistan. It controls large amount of oil and gas reserves of the country totaling up to the 45% of gas and 35% of the oil reserves of the country. This company is also responsible for research and development in the sector. The company had a target of digging out 42 wells in current financial year 2009-2010 but is lagging well behind the target and will most likely will be unable to achieve the target. Company have been able to dig just 6 wells up till now in this year and need to dig up about 36 more in remaining period of less than 6 months to achieve the target.
The oil production share of the company is 61% of whole oil production of the country and gas production totals up to 25% of all natural gas production of the Pakistan. Due to being not able to keep up with the targets company’s oil and gas production is decreasing and they are not being able to keep up with the production targets. Their production have even declined over the past few months.
Company was also unable to achieve their oil production targets and this year they had to achieve the number of drilled wells target but lagging too much behind. Company spokesman told media that the reason for this was the stay orders by court on some drilling sites disputed with private companies and secondly the bad security situation in lots of areas make them unable to operate.
Company have marked about 23 more sites for drilling but need to spot out about 13 or more sites to dig for oil and gas.
USB 3.0 on the way to your computer
Posted by K. Shahzad in Technology on January 3, 2010
USB 3.0 Super Speed
Universal Serial Bus (USB) medium came a very much long way facilitating us with the amazing speeds of its times. USB continues to amaze as its coming out with its new high speed versions in every age. Now USB 3.0 is on the way to your computers and you will be using it soon. Before we go into the details of features of USB 3.0 lets go back to times when USB was first introduced and look on how its evolved.
Back in 1996 companies like Intel, Microsoft and Compaq introduced and started giving support for this medium. The first version USB 1.0 provided the abilities like connecting the devices to computer without restarting it and also using same one port for power and data with a number of pin connectors in there. Soon in 1998 a new version was introduced and this was referred as USB 1.1
USB 1.1 came with amazing transfer speed of its time and that was 12 Mbps. It served the purpose for a while and served it well. Along with advancement of USB, the USB storage devices were also soon introduced. The most significant in this respect is the arrival of USB Flash drives. They rocked the removable storage media and was a tremendous improvement over the floppy drives which were just holding at most 2 MB of data were really a pain.
Soon a version called USB 2.0 was introduced, this was also a huge improvement over its earlier versions. USB 2.0 is the most recent in use version and supports the transfer rates of about 480 Mbps. USB 2.0 and all the earlier versions support one way data transfer at a time.
USB 3.0 which have been talked from last two years now soon coming into your computers. USB 3.0 is a tremendous transfer rate improvement and supports 3.2Gbps data transfer rate. Not only that, it supports the two way data transfer. A device connected via USB 3.0 can not only transmit to computer but also can get data at a time. To support the two way data transfer USB 3.0 comes with the extra pins in the connectors.
The extra pins are setup in a way that when a USB 3.0 device is connected to a connector of USB 2.0 or earlier versions the extra pins don’t come in contact with any of the other pins. Carefully setup interface of USB 3.0 enables USB 3.0 devices to connect and function with older versions of USB ports but yes in that case data transfer will be one way due to absence of ability to use the two extra introduced connections.
About till 2011 you will start seeing the devices from Intel using this technology and several motherboard manufacturers have also started planning the board models which will provide the USB 3.0 devices.
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Sunset Behind the traffic
Posted by K. Shahzad in Pictures on January 2, 2010
These photos were taken on a Road inside Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Sunset and cloud shades are great but things would have much better in absence of these trucks.
Country wide CNG Association Strike ends, Gas load management to be discontinued soon
Posted by K. Shahzad in Basic Needs, National on January 2, 2010
As all Pakistan CNG Association had announced a country wide strike and they were on strike for quite a few days now, finally they got the chance to settle the issues with the officials. A delegation from All Pakistan CNG Association met Federal Minister for Petroleum Syed Naveed Qamar to talk on the issue.
Naveed Qamar assured them that the Gas load management plan will be discontinued by the February. Responding to this assurance from Qamar CNG Association announced the discontinuity of their strike against the government and for now CNG stations will only be closed on normal schedule provided by government.
Hope the official stands by his assurance and its not another unfulfilled promise by the country’s administration.
New year 2010 as a new dawn, welcome to new era
Posted by K. Shahzad in Inside Story, National, Occasions on January 1, 2010
We hope that this new year 2010 will prove to be a new dawn with opportunities for Pakistan. We will get rid of all the problems that currently our country is facing. Hope their will be peace in the country and hope we will be back to the development and will get our status back in aspects of life as a nation.
With all the hope their are things our country requires from us, all it takes is the where ever you are, if you are a lost soul, get back to honesty voluntarily as soon as possible. This applies to people of Pakistan and Administration/Leadership of the country.
For all those souls who are causing trouble to destabilize the nation must also realize that it is the time to change otherwise we will force them to change. This applies to all who are in race to destabilize the law N order by their coward attacks on general public as well as men in uniform.
Lets see this as an opportunity to rise on map on the world once again and do our part to serve the humanity. God Bless Pakistan.
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