The Jamshoro Power Company Limited (JPCL) has refused to sign fresh gas sale agreement with Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC), saying that fresh GSA was not necessary to increase gas quantity, sources told Business Recorder. Earlier, SSGC had asked JPCL to finalise GSA for increase in quantity required for three units, otherwise the company would be constrained to supply the committed level of 53 mmcf against the provision of existing GSA.
The SSGC said that the matter was open for the last one year, but Wapda was reluctant to ink revised GSA for additional gas quantities which is a requirement of Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra).
The company had also warned not to enhance gas supply to Jamshoro, Quetta, Kotri and Sukkur power plants if Wapda failed to sign the revised GSA.
Wapda, however, argued that SSGC had agreed to sell and deliver to the consumers a quantity of 62 mmcf gas per day. In case additional gas becomes available beyond 62 mmcf per day and transmission line pressure permits, the consumer may draw gas at a total hourly rate up to 6 mmcf per hour ie 144 mmcf per day.
Member Power Wapda, Anwar Khalid, in a letter to the Managing Director of SSGC said that as the company was making additional gas available and JPCL was drawing the additional gas on its actual requirement, there was no need of fresh GSA to increase quantity. However, fresh GSA would be finalised with the co-ordination of Financial Adviser and the advice of Privatisation Commission as and when received.