CNG rates fluctuate

Ogra revises rates for CNG by dividing country into four blocks, prices expected to go up in some areas.

Ogra also revised the rates for compressed natural gas (CNG) by dividing the country into four blocks based on gross calorific value. As a result, prices are expected to go up by Rs1.36 to Rs 58.68 per kilogram at the CNG stations of Attock, Gujar Khan, Islamabad, Karak, Banu, Tank, Laki Marwat and Dera Ismail Khan.

For the remaining districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa the CNG prices have marginally reduced by Rs0.30 to Rs57.00 per kg. For Sindh there are two different rates from March 1. In Upper Sindh the new rate will be Rs 53.45 per kg. For districts of Nawabshah, Karachi, Khairpur, Tandu Adam, Sanghar, Pakistan Steel Mills area and for Balochistan the new CNG per kg rates will be Rs 55.22 per kg.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 1^st, 2011.