As a customer-centric organization, Sui Southern Gas Company continuously pursues facilitating its worthy customers’ meeting their gas-related requirements by regularly enhancing its facilities through the deployment of various developmental projects.
One such project was inaugurated today by SSGC’s managing director, Mr Imran Maniar, who inaugurated the commissioning of a transmission pipeline to supply gas to Karachi’s West Region. This 24” dia x 31 km pipeline from MVA ACPL to SMS Surjani will largely address the issues of low-pressure gas supply to the Company’s industrial customers located in the western region. The cost of the entire project is recorded as Rs. 3,859 million.
The project will segregate the low-pressure domestic and commercial consumers from the 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 a feeding source for the 16” dia x 5 km pipeline from SMS Surjani to Madinat-al-Hikmah, which is one of the 05 projects of SSGC’s Master Plan for expanding the Distribution Network in Karachi. Moreover, this project also includes modifications to the Surjani Stepdown assembly that will result in a more effective and efficient control philosophy, leading to better monitoring and control of Unaccounted-for-Gas (UFG) activities.
Speaking at the inaugural ceremony organized by SSGC’s Technical Services Division, Mr Maniar highly appreciated the efforts of SSGC’s engineers, workers and technicians deployed in the team dedicated to this project on completing it in the given timeline despite extremely hot weather during the last one and a half month. He informed me that the execution of this project would reduce UFG in two ways, i.e., by reducing the unwanted high gas pressures in the domestic sector and improving pressures and volumes in the industrial sector.
The Managing Director attributed this remarkable achievement to the unified integration and dedicated teamwork of the Projects and Construction (P&C), Planning and Development (P&D), Transmission, Finance, Procurement, Stores, HSE&QA, L&EM, Security Services and Counter Gas Theft Operations (SS&CGTO), and Corporate Communication Departments. Heads and executives of these departments were also present at the inauguration ceremony.
Amin Rajput, DMD (F & A) / CFO, Ghulam Moeen Butt, ASGM (Technical Services), Brigadier (R) Muhammad Abuzar, DG (SS&CGTO) and Ghulam Ali Mahar, DGM-Incharge (P&C) also spoke on the occasion. He lauded the concerned teams’ exemplary commitment and dedicated efforts in commissioning this much-needed project. Ceremony was graced with the presence of former Chairman of SITE Association of Industry Mr. Saleem Parekh.
