APCNGA blames government of violating gas supply agreements

APCNGA blames government of violating gas supply agreements

ISLAMABAD, Friday, 23 December 2011: The government is deliberately violating the gas supply agreements with CNG, industrial, commercial and other sectors.

Addressing a press conference, Ghayas Abdullah Paracha, Chairman All Pakistan CNG Association (APCNGA), said that the government had reduced gas pressure in the big cities just to benefit a few people involved in the business of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).

He said that the Central Executive Council of APCNGA had appealed the government to improve gas supply to CNG sector and maintain the agreed price differential. "CNG industry will cooperate with the government, but if government doesn’t take our issues seriously
then we will be compelled to resort to protest," he added.

Dispelling the impression that use of CNG cylinders were main reason behind recent incidents of cylinders blasts countrywide wherein nearly 80 people have lost their lives, Paracha said in Pakistan over three million vehicles were using CNG for 15 years
but never CNG cylinder blast has occurred. He alleged that a group of few influential having access in the power corridors was trying to replace CNG stations with auto gas and therefore an impression was being created in the masses that use of CNG cylinders
was major cause of recent blasts.

However, he added, that the government and regulatory authorities including Oil and gas Regulatory Authority, Provincial Transport Authorities and Hydro Development Institute of Pakistan (HDIP) have failed in performing their due role to monitor CNG cylinders/kits
and establish laboratories for checking the quality of these equipments.

"Today Central Executive Committee of APCNGA held its meeting and decided to save masses from any untoward incident. The body will fully co-operate with the government, even we are ready to close our businesses if government is going to resolve low gas pressure
to domestic sector. But, we know the government is supplying gas to industrial sector against the agreements and is trying to create confusion among the masses that CNG sector was responsible for low gas pressure so that it could continue gas supply to industrial
sector and bring expensive Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in the country," Paracha said.

He said that his body had requested the government to follow the gas agreement or gas load-management plan.

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