Court stops gas application from collecting high UFG
ISLAMABAD: Textile millers have won a stay sequence from justice opposite deception of a high rate of unaccounted-for-gas (UFG) – a detriment caused by burglary and leakages – on gas consumption, that will harm gain of Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL).
In annoy of Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra)’s insistence on recuperating all a cost associated to re-gasified liquefied healthy gas (RLNG) from consumers of that fuel, SNGPL has widespread a lapse on resources on other consumers as well.
The regulator had authorised a ring-fencing of UFG on usually a delivery network.
The justice gave a stay opposite a high 10.5% UFG that SNGPL was collecting from a weave mills receiving RLNG and a gas application was authorised deception of usually 4.5% UFG on such consumers on a placement network.
Moreover, a association had also asked for $0.26 per million British thermal units as RLNG travel charges from a weave mills retrospectively for a past few months.
The justice released a stay sequence in this box too. This will harm a utility’s gain as issues associated to gas companies have remained underneath stay orders for a final few years.
The stay sequence means that gain estimates of SNGPL, that caters to a gas direct from Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, might be revised according to a outcome of a case.
In a conference during a Lahore High Court, all a petitioners pronounced they were intent in a production and sale of opposite weave goods, many of that were exported to general markets.
For this purpose, they said, a production units had been determined in a area descending within a office of a respondent gas placement company.
They pronounced weave production was a continual routine that compulsory undeviating energy supply. In a issue of strident necessity of electricity, primarily a mills were speedy to settle their possess energy era plants with outrageous investments. They were betrothed healthy gas supply turn a time for using a plants.
However, a mills of Punjab carrying no other choice were compelled to run quite on RLNG, but even settling authorised implications, complications and modalities with courtesy to pricing and supply.
They argued that SNGPL had released RLNG bills including outrageous amounts underneath a conduct of adjustments to a whole weave attention using into millions of rupees for each consumer and giving them only dual days to make payments.
“This brief time duration in a benefaction conditions is subsequent to impossible, resultantly if insurance is not supposing by a court, there are critical apprehensions that a outrageous series of mills will be away in dual days,” a petitioners said.
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 15th, 2016.
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