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PSO plans countrywide CNG supply

Staff Report

KARACHI: Pakistan State Oil, the largest oil marketing company, announced on Monday that the company was going to launch CNG (compressed natural gas) availability programme across the country.

In a recent development the state-run marketing company has signed a memorandum of understating with a UAE-based company to ensure the availability of compressed natural gas (CNG) from Karachi to Khyber.

The MoU was signed by Jalees Ahmed Siddiqi, MD and CEO PSO, and Mussarat Zuberi, CEO of Star Petro Energy, a subsidiary of Al-Ghurair Group of Companies.

“The CNG will be supplied through a unique concept of unconventional mother-daughter CNG facilities at retail outlets on highways at every 80-100 kilometres where piped gas is not available,” said a PSO statement issued after the signing ceremony.

“The mother station would be installed to the nearest point from the highways where piped gas line is available.”

It said higher capacity compressors or equipment would be installed and CNG would be transported from the mother station through big trucks carrying high capacity storage cylinders.

“At daughter stations, the CNG would be stored from these high capacity storage cylinders to dispense it among vehicles on highways,” said the PSO statement.

The mother-daughter CNG facility is a concept that is already in operation in many parts of the world.

The statement said with this concept, PSO would ensure that CNG was available for a road traveller right from Karachi to Peshawar throughout.

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