Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) announced it has no plan yet to start gas loadshedding in domestic or industrial sectors of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
SNGPL Managing Director Amjad Lateef, while talking to a local newspaper said that there are no current plans of gas loadshedding in domestic or industrial sectors since there is no gap between demand and supply.
However, the government on Monday said that there will be no natural gas supply from midnight to early morning to households of the Punjab.
Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, while talking to media persons after a meeting of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee of Petroleum and Natural Resources, said that gas supply will remain suspended across the Punjab between 10:00pm and 05:00am during winters.
The minister said that after the 18th Amendment, meeting the gas demand of the province had become very much difficult and now from December to February, gas supply to consumers will remain suspended during these specified hours.
On the other hand, SNGPL Director Amjad Lateef said at present the total gas demand and supply on average in domestic sector was around 500mmcfd, while the industrial sector’s total demand was over 300mmcfd these days.
Earlier, The Inter-State Gas Company Limited (ISGCL) Managing Director Mobin Saulat, while briefing the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Resources, informed the committee that Gwadar-Nawabshah Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Terminal and Pipeline Project is going to hit the ground in the next two months, as the government is going to sign the commercial contract agreement with China this month. The project will be completed in two years.
