Success story of SSGC

SSGC's incredible success story began in 1954 when engineers and technicians of Sui Gas Transmission Company pioneered the construction of Asia's first 16 inch diameter, 558 km long pipeline. The pipeline was part of a grand vision to harness natural gas discovered in Sui, Balochistan and transport it all the way to feed the budding industrial hub of Karachi. Sixty three years later, SSGC is a pulsating energy power house, engaged in transmission and distribution of gas to more than 2.76 million domestic, commercial and industrial customers located in its franchise areas of Sindh and Balochistan. The Company provides clean and affordable fuel to more than 2.73 million domestic, 23,178 commercial and 4,173 plus industrial customers.
A downstream company, SSGC purchases natural gas from more 24 gas fields, operated by upstream local and multinational exploration and production companies. The Company's transmission and distribution network stretches across 3,614 kms and 44,575 kms, respectively. The Company's core business includes transmission, distribution and sale of Natural Gas, design and construction of transmission and distribution Project and more recently the transmission of Re-gasified LNG.
Among the Company's non-core businesses are the sale of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), Natural Gas Liquid and Condensate and manufacturing of domestic gas meters. The Company also runs a subsidiary company by the name of SSGC-LPG (Pvt) Ltd which is engaged in the marketing and distribution of LPG across the country. Since 1975, SSGC has been productively running Pakistan's only Meter manufacturing plant that meets the needs of all its domestic and industrial customers.
The Company comes under the umbrella of the Ministry for Petroleum and Natural Resources. It is managed by an autonomous Board of Directors for policy guidelines and overall control, with a Managing Director managing day to day affairs.
The Company is served by several nerve centres or Headquarters, strategically located in different locations of Sindh and Balochistan. These Headquarters ensure optimum gas transmission and compression, from the fields to customers in the respective regions.
As one of the key stakeholders in the LNG project, the Company recently embarked on developing an ambitious infrastructure for transmitting re-gasified LNG (RLNG) to the consumers, as part of the Government of Pakistan's objective of bridging demand-supply gap of natural gas. The Company's scope of responsibility includes receiving RLNG and transporting, through a dedicated 42" diameter, 352-km pipeline that it is currently constructing, a volume of 1.2 billion cubic feet capacity fuel to consumption nodes that require it most. The construction project that the Company is pursuing is the biggest it has ever undertaken in recent years.
Our commitment to an unremitting gas supply comes up with an almost instinctive responsibility of providing 24 hour customer service, with speed, alacrity and a smile. The Company has raised the bar of customer service by continuously adding to a fleet of 1199 vans, making itself accessible to customers through 22 customer facilitation centers and responding to their complaints through 24/7 call centers.
The Company runs its own state of the art bill printing facility that prints more than 650 pages per minute. Over the years, the Company has emerged as one of Pakistan's IT most enabled companies through constant technological enhancement. Many of these solutions including the Geographical Information System (GIS) have been devised in-house, saving costs and strengthening the Company's capacity to serve its customer-base even more efficiently.
The Company, under the directives of Government of Pakistan is installing LPG-Air Mix Plants or Synthetic Natural Gas Plants in those towns of Balochistan and Sindh which are far off from the distribution grid, thus providing the consumers with an alternative source of energy. So far, LPG-Air Mix Plants have been set up in Gwadar, Noshki and Surab in Balochistan and in Kot Ghulam Mohammad in Sindh. On the directives of the Government of Pakistan, the Company is all set to install 30 more LPG-Air Mix plants in Sindh and Balochistan within the next one year.
Driven by its concern for improving the quality of life, SSGC regularly invests in corporate social responsibility projects in collaboration with government and non-governmental organisations in the areas of education, health, environment and community development, including provision of relief support in the aftermath of natural catastrophes. During the last one year, in the area of education, the Company has provided scholarships to deserving students for pursuing their academic goals at some of the most reputable educational institutions in the country. Some notable partnerships included providing scholarships to the deserving students of IBA, Karachi, NEDUET, BUITEMS, FCC-Lahore, MUET, QUEST, Nawabshah, IoBM Karachi, Sukkur IBA and Al-Hijrah Schools Trust, Balochistan. Other worthy associations included providing educational assistance to school students of Chamalang-Balochistan, supporting TCF students of TCF schools in Quetta and Larkana, providing monetary support to students of Indus Resource Centre, FESF and The Hunar Foundation. The Company was involved in the construction and rehabilitation of a number of schools in Hub including Government Boys Middle School, Jam Yusuf Colony, Government Primary School, Goth Ameen, Goverment Girls High School, Akram Colony and Government Boys High School, Jhal Magsi.
During the last one year, in the area of health, the Company provided monetary support to Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre in Mirpurkhas and Gwadar and to Fatimid Kidney Centre, Quetta for sponsoring treatment of thalassaemic patients of Balochistan region as well as to AMTF-Karachi for bearing the annual expense of blood transfusion of its patients. The Company also provided anti-snake injections to Jhal Magsi Rural Health Centre for the local community. Then in the area of environment and community development, the Company collaborated with IUCN in its drive to save mangroves in the vicinity of its subsidiary company SSGC-LPG Terminal in Karachi's Port Qasim area. During the year, the Company collaborated with WWF-Pakistan for setting up bio-gas plants in Thatta and with Thal Limited for the production of bio-degradable environmental friendly paper bags.
The Company has a vibrant sports scene. A number of SSGC cricketers, hockey players and cyclists have not just won laurels for the Company in domestic circuits but have also donned Pakistan colours and have successfully represented Pakistan teams in international games.