Bracing for cold weather: Winter gas outages to strike Punjab hard
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ISLAMABAD: Icy winds, along with unenlightened fog, make winters in Punjab, generally in northern and executive regions, a bit harsh. But people should prop for even a harsher winter this year since they will be subjected to prolonged generation gas outages.
This is notwithstanding a fact that Pakistan is now importing Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). The upsetting avowal was done by Petroleum Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi during a assembly of a National Assembly Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Resources on Monday.
Currently, gas shortfall for domestic consumers is 40% on a Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) system, and this opening is constantly widening, according to Abbasi. Consumers in Punjab would be confronting determined gas outages between 10pm and 5am since of a augmenting shortfall.
He pronounced a supervision has started implementing a gas bucket supervision devise in some districts of Punjab. “Although a supervision is importing LNG, it could not be used by domestic consumers.”
The committee, that met with met with Bilal Virk in a chair, also discussed a use of amicable gratification supports by oil and gas scrutiny companies.
Petroleum method officials sensitive a row that parliamentarians were not empowered to use this fund. But provincial governments were certified to utilize it in a areas of scrutiny activities on community-based amicable gratification projects.
Pakistan State Oil (PSO) Managing Director Sheikh Imranul Haque pronounced a association had warranted a distinction of Rs10.2 billion this year. The company, he said, had warranted Rs21 billion in distinction in 2014, that declined to Rs6.9 billion final year.
In 2014, he said, eccentric energy producers (IPPs) had also paid mark-up on superb impost to PSO. “PSO’s financial health is improving,” he claimed. The organisation alien petroleum products value Rs876 billion in 2013, Rs567 billion in 2014 and Rs349 billion in 2015.
Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) Managing Director Amjad Latif pronounced gas value Rs10 billion had been stolen in a SNGPL region. SNGPL perceived 130,500 complaints of gas theft.
Because of a anathema on industrial and blurb gas connections, people are not usually hidden gas from domestic connectors though also securing domestic gas connectors and regulating them for industrial and blurb purposes.
The parliamentary row suggested visual scale readings to equivocate overbilling to gas consumers.
Inter State Gas Systems Managing Director Mobin Saulat pronounced blurb agreement on a Gwadar LNG tube with a Chinese association would be sealed this month.
He pronounced an agreement on a Gwadar LNG depot would be sealed with a Chinese association subsequent month. He pronounced a north-south tube would be laid by a Russian association on a government-to-government basis, and talks were already underneath approach for an agreement and price. This tube would be finished in Jun 2018.
Regarding a Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) tube project, he pronounced a plan would grasp financial tighten in Jun subsequent year and gas would start issuing in Dec 2019.
Briefing about a Iran-Pakistan gas tube project, he pronounced that due to general sanctions opposite Tehran Islamabad in 2014 revoked forced Majeure underneath a gas sales/purchase agreement, and a ECC had authorized choice plan of a IP plan in Oct 2014 underneath that the Gawadar-Nawabshah territory would be completed.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 18th, 2016.
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