Amin Rajput, Acting Managing Director, SSGC performed the ground breaking for the rehabilitation of the Company’s 1,000 kms distribution network in North Nazimabad and North Karachi.The need to rehabilitate this 4 decades old distribution network that serves many a North Nazimabad and North Karachi households rose, since over the years, the existing network had become old and corroded, leading to heavy leakages.
Due to the high leakage rate the Company was forced to keep the system pressures on the lower side, leading to persistent low-pressure complaints from the residents of the area. Presently, the existing network is not isolated, which explains why gas losses cannot be metered / measured.The rehabilitation activity will be executed in twelve segments or lots by the Projects and Construction Department of the Company’s Technical Services Division.
Ground breaking ceremony was attended by SSGC’s senior management including Saeed Rizvi, DMD (Operations), Syed Asghar Shah, (SGM HR and MS), Ghulam Moeen Butt, ASGM (Technical Services), FasihuddinFawad, ASGM (Customer Services), Adnan Rehman, ASGM (Distribution SBU-LS Central) and Madni Siddiqui, ASGM (HSEQA) and many other departmental heads. Rehabilitation of the area has been planned in a way that the network would be segregated in 18 zones with isolated TBSs or Town Border Stations (10 existing and 8 proposed TBSs).
Consequently, sale / purchase will be reconciled for each zone. All leaky / corroded steel pipe network would be replaced with HDPE 100 pipe and the entire losses due to the leakage would be eliminated. In addition, under-sized network would be upgraded in all respects and smooth supply would be possible to all the customers of this area. The arrangement will help in a better control of the operational pressure of the area as per requirement with the creation of newly segregated small pockets.
The project will be commissioned in around 10 months.While addressing the gathering, Amin Rajput, AMD appreciated all departments that played their role in the implementation of this project with special mention of Technical Services Division for implementing a massive rehabilitation strategy whereby the previous maximum rehabilitation of 250 kms will be converted to 2,500 in a year.
These efforts, he said, have helped to bring down overall UFG to less than 10 percent after nearly 2 decades. He hoped that the Technical Services Division will continue with the same momentum while carrying out rehabilitation works in Northern part of Karachi and other areas. Ghulam Ali Mahar, DGM-In charge (P&C) moderated the proceedings as Master of Ceremony.
