SSGC, MUET hold seminar on line losses

Unaccounted-for-gas or UFG is a menace that all the stakeholders including the general consumers of natural gas have to wage a decisive war against it.
This was reiterated by Amin Rajput, Acting Managing Director, SSGC, in a seminar entitled 'UFG - A major threat' organised by Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, in collaboration with SSGC at the University's main auditorium on February 15, 2017. Defining UFG as the difference between total gas purchased and total gas sold to customers, Amin Rajput stressed that this phenomenon is a major threat for the company since it takes away a large chunk of profits away from the company's balance sheet.
He said that one of the contributory factors for the rising tide of UFG are cases of gas theft in SSGC's franchise areas of Sindh and Balochistan.
The acting MD said that as a responsible citizen one must refrain from committing gas theft more so since it is now a serious crime by legislation. He said that to bring repeat gas theft offenders to book, an SSGC-backed dedicated Police Station.
He said that the University students and faculty members must pass on the message conveyed to them about the menace of UFG including gas theft to their colleagues and neighbourhood so that each stakeholder can play a constructive role in clamping down on UFG and discouraging gas theft as well as meter tampering.
Saeed Larik, Acting SGM (Distribution-South) dilated on some of the factors that contribute to UFG. He cited that while gas theft is a major factor, overhead and underground leakages, meter tampering and measurement errors also result in increasing volumes of UFG.-PR