KARACHI: The Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) has announced a schedule for gas supply in Sindh during which the consumers will get supply from 6-9am, 12-2pm, and 6-9pm, a company spokesperson said Monday.
The SSGC official said that the gas supply would not be cut off completely for the rest of the day. The SSGC will ensure supply in the above-mentioned eight hours as per the government directives, he added.
As per the Prime Minister’s directives, SSGC is ensuring gas supply to its customers during meal hours as per the given schedule. pic.twitter.com/02qrmsWt4T
— SSGC Official (@SSGC_Official) December 11, 2022
Earlier, State Minister for Energy (Petroleum Division) Musadiq Malik, before the Senate Standing Committee on Petroleum, said that Pakistan LNG Ltd (PLL) has procured 10 LNG cargos for December 2022, nine cargoes for January, and eight cargos for February 2023.
“Despite importing 100 mmcfd gas or one cargo additional for January and February 2023 as compared with the same month of 2022, the government has to implement the gas rationalization plan to meet the growing demand in winter,” he said.
He further said that the Petroleum Division would ask the Finance Division for a supplementary grant for price differential for the import of LNG in winter as the subsidy was not budgeted in the current fiscal year 2022-23. “In case the government does not realize the funds then it will add to the circular debt of oil and gas”, he maintained.
