CNG body to challenge LNG import in court
Suggests Sindh should be exempted from gas outages.
He backed the Sindh government’s stance against LNG import, stressing that provinces were not taken into confidence prior to the decision. PHOTO: INP
HYDERABAD:
The Sindh CNG Association, a lobbying group of compressed natural gas (CNG) station owners, has demanded that the province should be exempted from gas outages like Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
The association, which staged a protest followed by a press conference here on Thursday, also rejected the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar.
“We are going to challenge both these issues in the Supreme Court,” announced Dr Zulfiqar Yousufani, the chairman of the association, alleging that the main purpose of LNG import was to pocket the commission.
He backed the Sindh government’s stance against LNG import, stressing that provinces were not taken into confidence prior to the decision.
Members of the association pointed out that districts like Mirpurkhas, Tando Allahyar, Sanghar and others in rural Sindh were not only enduring regular load-shedding of gas, but were also complaining about low gas pressure.
Colonel (Retired) Dost Muhammad Chandio, a leader of the association, claimed that the low gas pressure damaged compressors at CNG filling stations besides affecting the mileage of vehicles.
According to him, the districts with higher percentage of unaccounted for gas (UFG), a term used by Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) to refer to theft, were facing these problems.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 4th, 2015.
The Sindh CNG Association, a lobbying group of compressed natural gas (CNG) station owners, has demanded that the province should be exempted from gas outages like Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
The association, which staged a protest followed by a press conference here on Thursday, also rejected the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar.
“We are going to challenge both these issues in the Supreme Court,” announced Dr Zulfiqar Yousufani, the chairman of the association, alleging that the main purpose of LNG import was to pocket the commission.
He backed the Sindh government’s stance against LNG import, stressing that provinces were not taken into confidence prior to the decision.
Members of the association pointed out that districts like Mirpurkhas, Tando Allahyar, Sanghar and others in rural Sindh were not only enduring regular load-shedding of gas, but were also complaining about low gas pressure.
Colonel (Retired) Dost Muhammad Chandio, a leader of the association, claimed that the low gas pressure damaged compressors at CNG filling stations besides affecting the mileage of vehicles.
According to him, the districts with higher percentage of unaccounted for gas (UFG), a term used by Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) to refer to theft, were facing these problems.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 4th, 2015.