KARACHI: The Ministry of Petroleum officials will hold meeting with All Pakistan CNG Owners Association on April 22, to resolve the problem confronting the CNG industry particularly gas load shedding to the industry.
This was stated by the chairman and president, All Pakistan CNG Owners Association Malik Khuda Baksh after holding a meeting with the Secretary Petroleum Imtiaz Kazi, DG Gas Mohammad Azam and other representatives in Islamabad Saturday.
He said on telephone the Ministry will compile the exact situation of gas availability and its growing demand across the country.
Malik Khuda Baksh said for the last two days they had a series of meetings with ministry officials to resolve gas load-shedding problem without suffering gas-transport-consumers.
He pointed out that CNG owner association did not take part in the CNG strike call given by another group for a reason that this would create panic among the people and further increase their miseries in the shape of paying more for using petrol as fuel in their light transport.
Closer of CNG stations would result great financial loss to the owners because their fixed cost including electricity, staff salaries and other have to pay.
Before the starts of recent winter season, he said it was decided that there would be two-day gas load shedding for CNG sector while in remaining five days the gas would be provided with full pressure.
However, he regretted that despite such promises by the government, full pressure gas was not provided in five working days that greatly loss the CNG stations owners.
Baksh said that secretary petroleum informed them that gas supply was disturb due to blown up of gas pipeline in Balochistan and several new discoveries of gas could not included in the system due to poor law and order situation in different parts of the country.
He said that the secretary petroleum has also assured that some repair works would also be completed in one week and the ministry would be in a position to present clear position of gas to CNG Owner Association.
He also claimed that there was enough gas supply in the country but due to mis-management on part of government, such crises were created.
He stressed for that the government should improve management system particularly on part of SNGPL to provide proper supply of gas to all sector of the economy.
He did not agree to the opinion that CNG stations now a day became a lucrative business, however, in initial period there was great profit.
He also claimed that his association, which has 33 percent CNG station, were remained functional and could not take part in strike call given by other association.
"We believe in negotiations to resolve the matter not by giving strike call, which put people more in trouble".
He suggested that the gas companies should improve their performance and reduce gas leakages.
He also suggested the government to ban provision of gas facility to more villages on political bases as it further put pressure on the existing consumers.
He expressed the hope that gas situation would be cleared by next week and it would be provided to CNG stations in whole week and it would reduce people difficulties in CNG for whole week.
Malik Khuda Baksh appreciated the efforts being made by the government to this end and expressed his understanding of the situation.
He also assured his full cooperation to the government in amicable resolution of the hardship being faced by the low and middle class consumers of CNG.
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