KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that the natural gas produced in Sindh is being supplied to Fertilizer and Power sectors and the entire country benefits from power and fertilizer.Therefore, Sindh may be compensated for the amount of natural gas much supplyd to its consumers of different sectors.This he said on Friday while presiding over a assembly to discuss the proposed amendments proposeed in OGRA Ordinance 2020.The assembly was attended by Minister Energy Imtiaz Shaikh, Principal Secretary to CM Sajid Jamal Abro, Secretary Energy Musadiq Ahmed, Secretary Finance Najam Shah, MD TCEB Tariq Ali Shah and other concerned officers.The chief minister said that under Article 158 of the Constitution of Pakistan the province where wellhead of natural gas was situated has first right of utilization of indigenous natural gas.&But on the opposite natural gas produced from Sindh is supplied to other Provinces and requirements of the Province are much being met,& he said and went on saying &in addition, the natural gas produced in Sindh is also supplied to Fertilizer and Power sectors and entire country benefits from power and fertilizer.& He said, had the natural gas supplied to other industrial, commercial and domestic consumers in Sindh, the Province could have benefited a lot.&Thus, Sindh may be compensated for the amount of natural gas much supplyd to its consumers of different sectors,& he demanded.Mr Shah directed Minister Energy Imtiaz Shaikh sit with his experts and prepare a case and dispatch it to the next CCI assembly.He also said that three months have passed to the final CCI assembly, therefore he decided to dispatch a letter to the federal government for convening CCI assembly.The Sindh government has been demanding from the federal government that the provincial governments should be given due representation in the national institutions such as OGDC, OGRA, PIA and such other institutions.
The federal government has allowed M/s SNGPL to inject RLNG volumes for consumption by domestic commercial consumers, supplyd OGRA allows volumetric adjustments and financial affect on cost neutral basis in line with ECC decision of May 11, 2018.The ECC further directed Cabinet Division to initiate essential amendments in OGRA Ordinance 2002 so as to bring the RLNG supply chain within its ambit in refer toation with Petroleum Division and OGRA.The Sindh government has proposed an amended in Section 3 (3) and the amendment read as &The Authority scorridor consist of a Chairman to be appointed by the Federal Government and four Members, one from each Provinces, to be appointed by the Federal Government in refer toation with the concerned Provincial Government.&The Sindh government has also proposed an amendment in Section 3(13) which reads as &There scorridor be a Vice-Chairman of the Authority, appointed from amongst the Members for a period of one year, by rotation, in the following order, namely: the Member representing the Province of Baluchistan;1.the Member representing the Province of Sindh; 2.the Member representing the Province of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; and3.the Member representing the Province of the Punjab.&On the matter of `Powers of the Federal Government to issue policy guidelines& the Sindh government has proposed that the Federal Government can issue policy guidelines to the Authority but with prior of approval of CCI.The Sindh government also urged the CCI to decided provincial government pending things such as amendment in ''the Regulation of Mines and Oil Fields and Mineral Development Act 1948; Petroleum Concession Consentment/ Supplemental Consentment; Amendment in The Mines Act 1923 etc.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source.
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