ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) approved an upfront amount of around Rs 6.1 billion for the current financial year for the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) and Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) for the provision of new RLNG-based domestic gas connections.
The SNGPL had projected Rs 262 million for service lines of domestic RLNG consumers under the distribution main and Rs 393 million under measuring and regulating for 30,000 RLNG connections, which was allowed in principle by the authority. The petitioner (SNGPL), in view of an uplifting of the moratorium, has included Rs 6.5 billion in its instant petition for 300,000 domestic RLNG connections.
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The authority, however, allowed an upfront amount of Rs 4.3 billion. An amount of Rs 1.8 billion was approved against a request by the SSGC for domestic gas consumers for the provision of new RLNG connections.
As per the government’s directives, the gas utility has planned to provide approximately 50,000 new gas connections to domestic customers on RLNG in Fiscal Year 2025-26. The estimated cost for the connections would be Rs 1.8 billion.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2025
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