Chairing a session on industrial prosperity the PM directed Punjab government to sketch out public-private partnership schemes for development projects
LAHORE: The MD of Sui Northern Gas Company (SNGC), Arif Hameed has said that Punjab will have to suffer from worst gas crisis in January, while OGRA can also increase the tariff in order to act upon different gas development projects, ARY News reported.
Lahore: The Sui Northern Gas Pipelines (SNGPL) decided on Monday to suspend, for an indistinct period, supplies to the industrial and compressed natural gas (CNG) sectors from 6am on Tuesday. The reason given is that its deficit has risen to more than 50 per cent of the demand.
By Monday, the gas requirement in the region covered by the company rose to 2.5 billion cubic feet with supply being 1.2 billion cubic feet, leaving a gap of 1.3 billion cubic feet.
According to SNGPL General Manager (sales) Mohammad Ashraf, the…