Sui Northern Gas Pipelines (SNGPL) has detected around 87,197 cases of gas theft on its network during the last fiscal year, under a comprehen-sive Unaccounted for Gas (UFG) reduction plan given by the government.
“There are 86,959 gas theft cases of con-sumers and 238 are of non-consumers,” according to an official document available with APP.
The company also registered 377 FIRs (First Information Reports) against the gas pilferers.
The UFG losses of SNGPL and Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) stood at 8.83 per cent and 15.85 percent respec-tively during the fiscal year 2020-21.
“Volumetric loss of SNGPL remained at 34,021 million cubic feet (mmcf) of gas and SSGC 67,476 mmcf of gas, mainly because of gas leakages, measurement errors and theft,” according to an official report available with APP.
In 2019-20, the SNGPL and SSGC had prevented a volumetric loss of around 9,938 MMCF gas against the UFG reduc-tion target of 14,806 MMCF gas.
The UFG is a phenomenon of gas loss that occurred due to various technical fac-tors when gas flowed from fields to end consumers.
It is calculated as the difference between metered gas volume injected into the transmission and distribution network (Point of Dispatch/Delivery) and the me-tered gas delivered to the end consumers (Consumer Meter Station) during a finan-cial year.—APP
