KARACHI: PSO is supplying furnace oil to power sector making an effort to reduce load-shedding hours during hot wea­ther and upcoming Ramazan.

It is supplying 18,000 tonnes of furnace oil per day to its credit customers: Wapda/Gencos, Hubco and Kapco. And 5,000 tonnes of fuel oil to its cash customers: IPPs (Lal Pir, Koh-e-Noor, Pak Gen, K-Electric, Gul Ahmed etc).

“It is supplying fuel despite the fact that the power sector owes Rs201bn to it,” says a press release.

Published in Dawn, June 1st, 2016

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