ISLAMABAD: The reduction of natural gas flows from local fields by 350 million cubic feet per day just to manage the gas pressure in the pipeline distribution system since the second week of March.
LAHORE: The textile industry in Punjab will have to pay more for gas from January as the state-owned gas utility switches to supplying costly imported liquefied natural gas for running captive.
ISLAMABAD: Taking a principled stance, the Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) has declined to attend meetings of the Ministry of Energy on sub judice regulatory matters.
A senior official at the Petroleum Division of the Ministry of Energy told Dawn that the regulator had taken a written position that it was not available for meetings on statutory regulatory matters. “Ogra [the regulator] is constrained to recuse itself from attending any such meetings,” the official quoted an Ogra communication as saying.
Informed sources in Ogra said the regulator had been receiving repeated letters almost on a daily basis from the petroleum and power divisions of the energy ministry on the issue of its determination of the gas companies’ revenue requirements for 2021 that had not gone well with the gas companies and the Petroleum Division.
The government has decided to remove moratorium on new gas connections for industrial and captive consumers in Balochistan after a gap of almost a decade. Dawn/File
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to remove moratorium on new gas connections for industrial and captive consumers in Balochistan after a gap of almost a decade.
For ensuring implementation of the decision, the Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE) has constituted a five-member committee to first approve a criterion for fresh connections.
The Petroleum Division had reported to the CCOE that almost a year ago in a meeting at the division presided over by Minister for Energy Omar Ayub Khan and Special Assistant to the Prime Minister Nadeem Babar and senior officials discussed the issue of provision of gas to industrial and captive power customers of Balochistan on the request of private sector.