Kunnar-Pasakhi pipeline to be ready by month-end

Will supply 100 mmcfd to Sui Southern Gas Company.

KARACHI: Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) has announced that work on Kunnar-Pasakhi gas pipeline is going on round the clock and the project will be completed by the end of December.

Built at a cost of Rs1.49 billion, the 35km-long Kunnar-Pasakhi pipeline will provide 100 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) of gas to SSGC in the first phase. The Kunnar-Pasakhi gas field, being operated by the Oil and Gas Development Company, is located in Tando Jam, some 30 km from Hyderabad.

Though the pipeline project started in June 2009, it got a major boost in the last around one year when work was expedited amid a widening gap between demand and supply of natural gas. Earlier, the project was expected to be completed by June 2012.

SSGC is currently receiving 1,100 mmcfd of gas against demand of 1,400 mmcfd. SSGC said besides 100 mmcfd from Kunnar-Pasakhi, it would get an additional 95 mmcfd from different fields.

These include 30 mmcfd from Sinjhoro gas field, followed by 15 mmcfd from Haseeb field, 20 mmcfd from Rehman field and 15 mmcfd each from Meher and Jhal Magsi fields.

“The commissioning of these crucial projects will further improve gas supply,” SSGC said.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 24^th, 2011.