ISLAMABAD: Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) and Sui Southern GasCompany Limited (SSGCL), under a strategy to reinforce and expand theirtransmission network would lay an additional 13,599 kilometers of gaspipelines during the fiscal year 2019-20.
The capacity of SNGPL and SSGCL would be enhanced by laying additional12,100 km and 1,499 km pipelines in their respective areas by June 2020, anofficial at the Petroleum Division told APP.
The two utility companies would invest Rs7,161 million on transmissionprojects, Rs48,288 million on distribution projects and Rs18,556 million onother schemes bringing the total investment to around Rs74 billion.
According to official sources, the companies are expecting to provide gassupply to approximately 430,695 new consumers during the fiscal year2019-20.
Answering a question an official said that the companies had laid 69 kmtransmission, 3,232 km distribution and 1,366 km services lines andconnected 165 villages and towns with their network during July 2018 toFebruary 2019.
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During eight months of the current financial year, the two utilitycompanies provided 428,305 additional gas connections including 425,404domestic, 2,770 commercial and 131 industrial connections across thecountry.
To another question, the official said that the companies had laid a 328 kmlong gas transmission network, 8,861 km distribution and 1,216 km servicelines and connected 231 villages and towns to the gas network during thelast fiscal year.
Pakistan has an extensive gas network of over 12,971 km transmission139,827 km distribution and 37,058 services gas pipelines to cater therequirement of more than 9.6 million consumers across the country.
