Elaborating further he said that Unaccounted For Gas (UFG) losses in the residential and commercial sector are over 10 percent and therefore it is imperative that strict monitoring is done and load shedding should be effected for these sectors instead of the industrial sector where UFG is hardly 2 percent. He said that there was only 18 percent efficiency and 82 percent wastage in home geysers while the industrial sector runs on 60-70 percent efficiency. Gas is frittered away in homes by running gas heaters during the winter in Punjab, Khyber PukhtunKhwa, Balochistan, Interior Sindh as well as in some of the offices in Islamabad while Export Oriented Industrial Sector starves and suffers for gas, he lamented and proposed that by strict monitoring of the gas bills of summer months of such consumers ie if the gas bills of winter months exceeds the amount of the summer bills where gas heaters, a 100 percent surcharge should be effected in their bills. It is important to note here, he said, that SNGPL and SSGC supplies gas solely for cooking stoves and not for gas heaters.
He said that it is imperative that load shedding of gas should be done in those areas and regions where UFG losses are high and similarly UFG losses should be collected from the same category of consumers and area where this loss has occurred eg if UFG losses are 10 percent in the residential area, such amount of UFG losses should be collected from the residential consumers of that area and such losses should never be divided and collected from the all the consumers of other areas who are not responsible for the UFG losses incurred in other areas as this is not at all justified nor legal.
He further proposed that all new residential and commercial connections should be stopped due to the severe shortage of gas. He said that it is pertinent to mention here that in majority of gas producing countries, Natural Gas is only supplied to the industries while LPG cylinders are supplied to residential and commercial consumers just because of the importance of the industrial sector. Further he lamented that it is indeed an irony that the villages where Bio Gas (Gobar Gas) plants were common, due to political pressure SNGPL and SSGC have laid down a large network of gas pipelines which is again a great wastage of Natural Gas. It is imperative that supplies of sufficient gas to the textile export oriented industries so that their production of export goods is not hampered and they are saved from ruin and disaster.-PR