Pipeline security measures discussed

Encroachments along pipeline’s route pose security risk

LAHORE:

Punjab Board of Revenue and Relief Commissioner Senior Member Nabeel Javaid chaired a meeting at his office on Tuesday to determine solutions for illegal encroachments along the route of a private company’s oil pipeline.

Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Director General Imran Qureshi, Director Nasir Ahmad Sani, DS (Staff) Roman Burana, Ehsan Latif and Ayesha Malik were briefed by the oil company’s officials about the security and operational matters of the pipeline, with SMBR stating that the encroachments on gas and oil pipelines could cause a major incident.

In order to avoid any major incident, no compromise should be made for the security of gas and oil pipelines, with effective measures also taken to prevent oil theft from pipelines without leniency.

He announced that a grand operation would be carried out to remove illegal encroachments along the route of the pipeline and instructions would soon be issued to the relevant districts' administration for its implementation.

Nabeel Javaid said the process of patrolling the pipeline should be improved by any means necessary and added that round the clock monitoring of the gas and oil pipeline was underway from the control rooms of PDMA and the private oil company.

The company and PDMA have signed an agreement for pipeline monitoring.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, March 22^nd, 2023.