SSGC official inaugurates pipeline to improve gas supply

KARACHI: The Sui Southern Gas Company continuously facilitates its customers in meeting their gas- related requirements by regularly enhancing its facilities through deployment of various developmental projects.

One such project was inaugurated by SSGC Managing Director Imran Maniar on Wednesday. The pipeline from MVA ACPL to SMS Surjani will largely address the issues of low-pressure supply of gas to the company’s industrial customers located in the western region. The cost of the entire project is recorded as Rs3,859 million.

The project will segregate the low-pressure domestic and commercial consumers from high-pressure industrial consumers of SITE and Hub Industrial Areas. The present demand of these industrial customers is around 130-140 MMSCFD whereas the future excessive demand is estimated to be 80-100 MMSCFD. Hence around 269 MMSCFD demand would be met through this new pipeline.

This pipeline will also serve as feeding source of 16” dia x 5 kms pipeline from SMS Surjani to Madinat-al-Hikmah, which is one of the 05 projects of SSGC’s Master Plan of expansion of Distribution Network in Karachi. Moreover, this project also includes modifications of Surjani Stepdown assembly that will result in more effective and efficient control philosophy, leading to better monitoring and control of Unaccounted-for-Gas (UFG) activities.