SSGC's load management plan for winter: gas supply to industries to remain closed for one day in a week: MD

Managing Director Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) Shoaib Warsi announced gas load management plan for winter, under which gas supply for industries will remain suspended for one day in a week.
Speaking at a meeting of Site Association of Industry (SAI) and later talking to newsmen, Warsi said that due to increase in gas consumption in Quetta with the advent of winter and under the gas management plan, gas supply to two WAPDA power units in Hyderabad and one in Quetta had already been suspended.
He said that under the plan gas supply to CNG stations would remain suspended for three days in a week and gas supply for Fauji fertilizer would be closed from January 1, 2015 for two months. Referring to K-Eclectic, he said under the plan gas supply to the utility would be cut gradually from existing 210 MMCFD to 100 MMCFD. Warsi hoped that that there would be no problem of gas in 2015 winter, as under 18 constitutional amendment 100 percent of all gas reserves discovered in Sindh would be added to SSGC.
He said that recently a Chinese company had discovered huge gas reserves and by March 2015 around 400 MMCFD gas would be added to the system from this field, besides adding gas from other discoveries. Explaining reasons for gas pressure fall, the MD said that gas pressure was falling at well heads and compressors had been installed to maintain the pressure. "There are 24 gas filed from where SSGC is getting gas," he added.
To a complaint regarding low gas pressure in Site industrial area on Wednesday, Shoaib Warsi said that SSGC compressors at Hyderabad tripped which caused low gas pressure. These compressors have been restored and from Thursday gas pressure will be normal, he added.
To a query, he said that SSGC had installed LPG-Air Mix Plants for various towns of Balochistan and Sindh to supply Synthetic Natural Gas (SNG) as an alternate to piped natural gas through gas distribution network. LPG Air mix has not yet been supplied to any part of the city, he added. He said Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal likely to be commissioned in March 2015 and gas will be supply to power station which reduce their cost by 17 percent.
He said that the government was establishing two LNG terminals where private companies had approached government to permission to install three LNG terminals. Warsi said that a summary has been moved to Prime Minister seeking permission to give new gas connections and enhance gas load. The MD agreed to a suggestion that SSGC should encourage use of solar geyser by financing or supplying these and recovering its cost in gas bills. The said the proposal seemed practicable and assured to examine it in detail, he added. He said that the government was working on controlling LPG price and after that its filling stations will be established all over Pakistan.