The LPG Marketing companies, dealer and equipment manufactures/suppliers are striving hard to bring the autogas stations and provide alternative fuel for vehicles in the country. For the same, the LPG Association of Pakistan’s (LPGAP) proposed for allowing installation in resedential areas following the NFPA-58 regulations which the authority Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) has put down. Business Recoder report gives the details.
According to documents available with Business Recorder, the Authority’s rationale is that in a country like Pakistan appropriate locations of LPG dispensing stations is all the more important due to high population densities, poor traffic conditions, dismal public awareness towards safety and weak emergency response at local level. Authority said that National Fire Protection Association (NFPA-58), an International Code and Standards Organisation, provided guidelines on safety at LPG dispensing stations which do not adequately cover the safety requirements for areas around dispensing stations.
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Auto-Gas, LPG, OGRA, Pakistan
Autogas, Fuel, LPG, LPGAP, NFPA-58, ogra, Vehicles
The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) has increased the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) by Rs 6 per kg, domestic cylinder by Rs 71 and commercial by Rs 273, Irfan Khokhar, Chairman LPG Distributors Association of Pakistan said in a statement on Wednesday.
He said according to the notification issued by Ogra the new price of gas for domestic users in Karachi would be Rs 85 per kg and in Lahore and Gujranwala Rs 105 per kg. While in Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Bahawalpur, Multan, Rahimyar Khan, Sargodha, Mandi Bahauddin, Sadiqabad, Hyderabad, Jhang, Jhelum, Mianwali the price will be Rs 115 kg and the overall price of a domestic cylinder in these cities will now be Rs 1307. In Azad Kashmir, Swat and Gilgit the new price will be Rs 120 per kg and the domestic cylinder in these areas will now be available at Rs 1366.
via Business Recorder
LPG, OGRA
LPG, ogra, prices
In our last post, we highlighted the lack of control of OGRA over the LPG price dynamics. Now, OGRA has taken notice of the situation and have warned all LPG marketing companies to refrain from overcharging practices and follows the authority fixed prices. This dawn news report gives the details:
Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority on Friday fixed the maximum consumer price for liquefied petroleum at Rs95 per kg and issued stern warning to LPG marketing companies involved in price manipulation.
The authority fixed the maximum reasonable consumer price of locally produced LPG at Rs80 per kg and for imported LPG at Rs95 per kg. It also determined the price for mix of local and imported LPG at Rs82.71 kg.
The prices are applicable for all the urban and rural areas of the country except AJK, Fata and Gilgit-Baltistan where additional Rs30 for an 11.8-kg cylinder may be added to each type of LPG due to higher transportation cost.
Taking advantage of the leniency of the regulator, the LPG marketing companies and LPG distributors are selling the fuel at exorbitant rates up to Rs135 per kg in some parts of the country.
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Gas, LPG, OGRA, Pakistan
LPG, ogra, Pakistan, prices
The unjustified LPG price hike is now in notice of the Ministry of Petroleum and Minerals and they have question OGRA (the regulatory) authority on its failure to control the price in the domestic market. The report from Business Recorder gives the details.
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources has expressed serious reservations over the failure of Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) in playing its due role for controlling LPG prices in the domestic market. Sources revealed to the Business Recorder that the Ministry in a strongly worded letter to Ogra has directed the authority to play its due role and take action against LPG marketing companies that are involved in inflate increase in LPG prices.
According to existing LPG policy, LPG companies are allowed to charge LPG prices that do not exceed the Saudi Aramco Contract Price (CP). “But Ogra has let LPG marketing companies raise the gas price many times during the month of Ramzan,” they said. Petroleum Ministry officials said that delay by Ogra in taking action against LPG marketing companies had raised questions about its role. The role of Ministry of Petroleum is to formulate policies whereas Ogra is a regulator and its responsibility is to ensure a price that does not exceed CP.
When contacted, Executive Director (Operations) Ogra, Sarmad Aslam confirmed that Ogra had received a letter from Ministry of Petroleum and would give its response soon. He said that due to closure of Parco refinery, country was facing LPG shortfall leading to a hike in its price. He maintained that Parco would take around 6-7 days to resume operation. He claimed that Authority had started action against undue hike in LPG prices from the weekend just past.
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Consumers, LPG, OGRA, Pakistan, Policy
LPG, Ministry, ogra
In our last post on the Synthetic Natural Gas (SNG); we discussed that LPG when mixed with air in right proportion, gives a perfect replacement for Natural Gas. While mentioning, the potential opportunities SNG can provide we said that Industries can use it as an alternate/back-up gas during the Natural Gas (NG) shutdown or curtailments times. In this post we shall discuss the importance of this alternate gas for industries and its need in the coming times.
In Pakistan, NG crisis are no different than energy crisis. Earlier we had NG shutdown hours/days only in winters, now we even have them in summers. With this happening it is easily predicted that in coming times or not thinking of far in the coming winters the NG shortage is going to get worst.
Managing Director Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC), Dr Faiz Ullah Abbasi, has affirmed this while addressing a recent business gathering. He has said the at the problems regarding the supply of gas in the coming winter would become more serious as compared to the last year, as the demand and supply gap has started to widen.
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Energy, Gas, Infrastructure, Pakistan, SNG
government, Industries, Natural gas, OGDC, ogra, Pakistan, PARCO, SNG, SNGPL, SSGC, Sythetic
Ogra again increased the price of compressed natural gas (CNG) by Rs 1.75 in the country and is forcing stations to sell gas on higher rates of Rs 57.03 against Rs 55.30.
Ogra has fixed the selling price of CNG for the Potohar Region, Khyber-Pakhtukhawa and Balochistan at Rs 57.03 against Rs 55.30 and for Sindh and the central Punjab Rs 55.30 against Rs 53.03.
Ogra on Sunday issued a notification on revised retail prices of compressed natural gas (CNG) in the country. On the other hand, the All Pakistan CNG Association has rejected the revised retail price of gas and decided to beseige the Ogra headquarters in protest on August 4.
The official spokesman of Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra), Asad Latif, told The News that the concerned authority had issued a notification of the new revised retail price of CNG across the country. All stations would follow the rates of gas according to the notification, he said. He said that overall, Ogra had increased the rates by Rs 1.75 per kilogram throughout the country.
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CNG, OGRA
CNG, government, ogra, Pakistan, rates
