30 LPG-air mix plants being set up in remote areas of Sindh & Balochistan

Provincial Head Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) Balochistan Region Madni Siddiqui has said that the Company is following the Government of Pakistan's directives of installing around 30 LPG-Air Mix plants in the far flung areas of Sindh and Balochistan. Siddiqui explained that for ensuring gas to those areas that are far off from SSGC's distribution grid, already three LPG-Air Mix or Synthetic Natural Gas (SNG) plants are currently operational in Gwadar, Noshki and Surab in Balochistan and work on two more plants in Awaran and Bela is near completion.
Madni Siddiqui said this while talking to the media persons at a dinner hosted in honour of the media fraternity of Balochistan region at a local hotel in Quetta. The dinner was part of SSGC's Winter Safety Awareness Campaign launched every winter to propagate messages to the general public about safe use of gas and menace of gas theft.
The Company's provincial head said that the provision of gas to the entire Balochistan is among the top priorities of SSGC. He further added that so far 14 districts of the province have been provided with natural gas and work is in full throttle to distribute it to other districts too. Siddiqui assured the audience that if Company's employees are caught stealing gas they will not be spared and law will take its course on them. On the subject of Winter Safety Awareness campaign that stresses on safe use of gas-fired appliances, Siddiqui said that before this yearly campaign intensified, on average 20 deaths used to occur in Balochistan during winter times. Now primarily due to this mass campaign the number of fatalities has been reduced to five per year, he said. He added that SSGC will not rest till the number of fatalities comes to zero. Shahbaz Islam, head of Corporate Communications, SSGC reiterated that while the Company is running a campaign to rein in gas thieves, true success will come when the media, clerics, general public and other stakeholders whole heartedly start supporting the gas utility in its mission. -PR