With the discovery of a new gas field, does Pakistan not need Iran’s gas?

According to Energy Press, Pakistan is known as a country with an energy crisis, and according to the available statistics, it imports nearly three-quarters of its energy, but in recent days, the news of the discovery of large oil and gas reserves in Pakistan was published and in Explaining this discovery, a senior Pakistani security official said; If it is exploited immediately, the fate of Pakistan will change.
This senior Pakistani security official, who is said to be aware of the findings of Islamabad’s energy experts regarding the presence of large oil and gas reserves in the country’s waters, announced that the complex process of Pakistan’s investigation and feasibility study with a friendly country has ended after three years. The final findings indicate the existence of these large deposits in Pakistan’s territorial waters.
The report states that some estimates indicate that this discovery is the fourth largest oil and gas reserves in the world.
Mohammad Aref, a former member of the Pakistan Oil and Gas Regulatory Organization, while commenting on the discovery of possible oil reserves in this country, said: Although we should be optimistic, there is no 100% certainty that the reserves have been discovered in accordance with the country’s expectations. Also, whether the volume of these reserves is enough to provide Pakistan’s energy needs or not? It depends on the size and amount of production recovery. If this is a gas reserve, it can replace the import of Al. it. and if these are oil reserves, imported oil can be replaced.
According to this former Pakistani official, exploration alone requires a huge investment of around five billion dollars, and extracting reserves from an offshore location may take four to five years.
Do Pakistanis use Iranian gas because they don’t need it?
The discovery of gas reserves and Pakistan’s efforts to obtain gas happened while it was supposed to build the peace pipeline and export gas from Iran by 2014, although this project has been delayed for 10 years due to the US sanctions against Iran. has been A 25-year contract was negotiated for the construction of a 781-kilometer pipeline from Iran’s border to Nawab Shah. This pipeline was supposed to pass 665 km through Pakistan’s Baluchistan province and 115 km through Sindh province. This pipeline has been stretched more than 1,100 kilometers in Iran from the Pars gas field to the border region of Pakistan in Baluchistan, and it has not yet been stretched even one kilometer in Pakistan.
Despite the need for natural gas due to energy shortages, Pakistan has had several problems since the project’s inception that has delayed its completion. But Iran has completed its share of the construction of this pipeline.