Corporate reforms, investments, modernisation, and diversification laid foundation for future growth, energy security, and sustainability Being one of the country’s two premier gas utilities, Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) manages gas transmission and distribution in its franchise provinces of Sindh and Balochistan, with a network spanning a massive 55,000 kms. The Company caters to 3.2 million customers, including 4,500 industries. Historically, SSGC suffered from a host of external and internal challenges and the gas utility’s financial statements were not finalized for several years. Losses continued to accumulate, and Unaccounted-for-Gas (UFG) or line losses had become uncontainable. Cumulative inter-enterprises liabilities swelled,…
Author: Syed Imran Ahmed
It is 7 am. While most people are getting ready to start their day, SSGC’s Counter Gas Theft Control Operations team is already on the ground preparing for a raid on a facility involved in the theft of natural gas. Acting on a tip-off, the Operation Wing accompanied by SSGC Police reaches a locality on the outskirts of Karachi within no time. The miscreants known to have ‘contacts’ in high places have been stealing gas for a long time by puncturing the main supply line to run generators for supplying electricity to the neighbors. Expecting an aggressive reception, the team…
The year was 1969. The then Karachi Gas Company published a print advertisement that proclaimed, ‘Sui Gas is always there whenever you need it. All you have to do is to turn on your tap and you get instant, smokeless fuel with an inexhaustible (gas) supply.’ Fast forward to 2022 and we find ourselves in a middle of a totally different energy scenario. We no longer have an inexhaustible gas supply. Gas supply in Pakistan has declined over the years due to the natural depletion of fields that are owned by exploration and production companies. Every year, gas is being depleted at…
Collecting gas from gas fields, transporting it to over hundreds of kilometers through large pipelines, and then distributing it to varied consumers across a wide geographical span, is no simple task. From the freezing Quetta Region surrounded by snow-capped mountains to the scorching Sibi and Indus-embracing Sukkur to the ever expansive Karachi, SSGC’s gas transmission and distribution networks provide a steady supply of the natural gas, the least expensive and most environment friendly of all fossil fuels. Natural gas is the biggest source of primary energy with a share of 43 per cent in Pakistan’s energy mix. Pakistan also possesses…