KARACHI: The Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGCL) has announced that gas supply to CNG stations will remain closed from Friday (Sept 24, 11pm) to Monday (Sept 27, 8am).

It will be followed by partial gas reduction to Sindh Nooriabad Power Company and Fauji Fertiliser Bin Qasim Limited from Friday night to Sunday 11pm.

The gas supply to K-Electric would also be reduced from 170mmcfd to 150mmcfd from Friday 11pm to Sunday 11pm. The industrial load would be closely monitored and only if the need arises then gas to non-zero rated industries would be curtailed on Saturday and Sunday.

In a statement, the SSGCL said that these decisions had been taken owing to an emergency shutdown repair of Pakistan’s LNG Terminal at Port Qasim from Saturday.

During this outage, M/s PGPCL would repair its 30 inches pipeline from FOTCO terminal to SSGCL Bin Qasim CTS. During this outage, gas flow would be zero from this terminal.

Subsequently, the SSGC’s RLNG intake would be reduced to 75mmcfd from 150 mmcfd.

The company has, however, assured to ensure uninterrupted gas supplies to its domestic and commercial customers under the load management plan.

Published in Dawn, September 25th, 2021