Engro Energy's Qadirpur power plant runs into snag

Engro Energy's Qadirpur power project has run into snag as its two key players-Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) and Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDC)-have declined to accept LDs (penalties), saying these were unwarranted and needed to be looked into.
Both SNGPL and OGDC want that Engro Energy should come up with such a formula that could equally protect the interest of all the parties to the project.
Business Recorder's investigations revealed that OGDC has referred a contract to SNGPL for signing a gas sale agreement (GSA) with Engro Energy but with a condition that it will only accept the LDs (penalties) clause if it takes- up the same to ensure that in the case of any failure, which is not on the part of the OGDC, will be acceptable to it.
SNGPL has also the same version on LDs. Its officials are not ready to accept any LDs beyond its system. Its officials had clearly mentioned their point of view at different meetings held to formulate an agreement for ensuring continuous supply of gas to the project.
Pakistan is in dire need of power and for plugging the growing gap in demand and supply it's desperately looking for different options. The officials of PPIB and other concerned department accept any proposal without any hesitation wherein investor ensures that he can produce power for increasing supply to WAPDA or KESC.
PPIB sometimes does not hesitate in violating its rules for award of gas to the party if it ensures that it can bring the project at power generation stage in comparatively less time. In Engro's power project's case the ministry took its proposal to Economic Co-ordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet which accepted it even without any advertisement in the press.
This step itself is questionable. One wonder how Engro Energy's project was allocated 75 MMCFD permeate gas from OGDC's Qadirpur field without any press advertisement or competitive bidding. Another question was there no other party or group interested to invest in Pakistan to produce power at the conditions accepted for Engro's project. If so why SNGPL and OGDC or Wapda were reluctant to accept LDs conditions.
Permeate gas is an off-gas from Gas treatment facility of Qadirpur gas field. SNGPL and OGDC's point of view as to why they should accept huge LDs for which they were not responsible make sense. Their officials say that they will like to be held responsible for their individual act.
Engro's demand that the government should share penalty does, not seem working. The government can hardly have such facility for one when many others were already in queue for looking the same treatment.
One thing which both SNGPL and OGDC made clear is that they will neither accept LDs in their exiting form nor sign gas sale agreement GSA with Engro Energy for power generation.