The Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) had to suspend gas supply to CNG stations for two days in a week under a load management system. However, gas pressure has improved after the increase in temperature and the consequent decrease in use of gas heaters and geysers in the province, said SNGPL GM (Sales) Rehan Nawaz while talking to APP here on Friday.
He said that Punjab was receiving 1,950 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) of gas while the demand was 2,142 mmcfd. However, 305 mmcfd was being supplied to a fertiliser company and three power plants in Sindh while the rest was being supplied to Punjab.
He said that Punjab was producing only nine per cent of the total demand of gas and was receiving 91 per cent of supplies from other provinces, including Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
To a question, Nawaz said that gas outages would end by 2014 after the completion of the gas pipeline project with Iran. To another query, he said that domestic supply was the main focus of the company and for that purpose action was being taken against people who had installed compressors which were affecting gas pressure.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 12th, 2011.
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