Annual maintenance shutdown in gas field to affect SSGC’s supplies

KARACHI: OGDCL has issued an ‘Annual Turnaround Plan 2023’ for its Kunnar-Pasakhi Deep (KPD) gas field whereby it will be undergoing planned maintenance for 16 days in three phases, i.e. from August 12 - 27, 2023.

According to the schedule, one full ATA of 8 days leading to a complete gas shutdown of the field, and two partial ATAs of 4 days each, have been planned by OGDCL. As a result, SSGC will face an estimated shortfall of 107mmcfd during the full ATA period and 50mmcfd each during the two partial ATAs.

Since the demand-supply gap of natural gas is already affected due to the constant depletion of gas reserves, this ATA will further widen this gap as due to this planned maintenance job, many customers and especially those located at the tail-end of SSGC's gas distribution lines may face low gas supplies and pressure.

SSGC will be closely monitoring the situation and will do its utmost to effectively manage the gas load by ensuring maximum available supplies to all categories of its customers. Moreover during these three phases of the ATA, SSGC would keep its customers in Sindh and Balochistan informed on the developments from the supply side.

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