ISLAMABAD: Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) and Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGCL) would set up over 60 Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)-air mix plants in selected areas where natural gas supply does not exist.
“The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) has recently approved setting up of LPG-air mix plants at Murree (Kurbagla, Dewal, Company Bagh and Tret), Awaran and Bella,” official sources told APP.
The sources said the plants would be established at an estimated cost of Rs 1353.29 million to be funded by the respective gas companies – SSGCL and SNGPL – through their own resources.
Besides, they said, the companies would set up 30 more air mix plants each on their respective transmission network in the areas of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Chitral, Gilgit-Baltistan and backward areas of Balochistan.
The setting up of the LPG-air mix plants would save these areas from the rapid deforestation in these areas.
Answering a question, the sources informed that private sector had also been allowed to establish their own LPG-air mix plants for housing colonies subject to fulfillment of all codal formalities required for the purpose.
All Pakistan LPG Distributors Association has appreciated the government for approving setting up of LPG-air mix plants in different parts of the country.
