Pakistan seems to have taken its newfound hero, US President Donald Trump's "drill, baby, drill" slogan, seriously. Months after Trump showed interest in the country's "massive oil reserves" , surprising not just industry experts but Pakistan itself, Pakistan Petroleum Ltd (PPL) is building an artificial island to ramp up oil and gas exploration.

The island will be coming up about 30 km off the coast of Sindh, near Sujawal, which is located near the River Indus, according to a report in Bloomberg. Sujawal is around 130 km from Karachi, the main commercial hub of Pakistan.

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For uninterrupted and round-the-clock drilling work , the structure will be six feet high to shield operations from high tides. The island's construction is expected to be completed in Februa

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