A serious incident of insurgency occurred at 6:00am on Thursday, near Hajano village in the Tangwani area of District Kashmore about 34 kilometers downstream from Sui, South of the Sui gas field, close to the Balochistan and Sindh border. As a result of the incident an 18 inch diameter SSGC gas pipeline was damaged.
The incident was caused by an explosive device, causing a 6 feet deep trough and rupturing nearly 40 feet long pipeline in a tract of wet muddy land. The pipeline was carrying 110 million cubic feet gas daily (mmcfd) from Sui gas field to SSGC's pipeline system at Shikarpur, for its onward transmission to the entire Balochistan.
Subsequent to incident, the effected section was isolated immediately. At the same time, an emergency response team rushed to the site from Shikarpur to inspect the situation. SSGC is managing the smooth and uninterrupted gas supply to Balochistan but a shortfall of about 30 mmcfd gas would be faced, as a result of the incident, resultantly the gas supply in Balochistan will be curtailed to all customers, except domestic for 2-3 days.
The recent sabotage activity took place just after 7 days, when on last Thursday i.e. January 13, 2011 another blast occurred on the same gas pipeline near Jafarabad. Four sabotage incidents had occurred at the same place i.e. 'Tangwani' area, since 2003.SSGC condemns such acts of insurgency, which are clearly against the interest of the people of Balochistan resulting in too many hardships for the inhabitants during an extremely cold weather. As a model utility, committed to provide world-class service SSGC reiterates that it will spare no effort to maintain uninterrupted supply of natural gas to its valued domestic, commercial and industrial customers.-PR