Pakistan becomes leading CNG user in Asia

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistan has become a leading country in Asia and the third largest user of CNG in the world, after Argentina and Brazil.

About 700,000 vehicles have been converted to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) in the country by March 2005 as compared to 450,000 vehicles during the same period last year, showing an increase of 56 percent.

According to an Economic Survey launched in a press conference here Saturday some 700 CNG stations are operating in the country while 200 are under construction.
The Survey said the number of electrified villages has also increased to 87,698 by March this year as compared to 78,820 till 2003-04, showing an increase of 11.3 percent.

The production of crude oil per day has also increased to 66,508 barrels during first nine months of 2004-05 from 62,122 barrels per day during the same period last year, showing an increase of 7.1 percent.

The overall production of crude oil has increased to 18.1 million barrels during July-March 2004-05 from 17.1 million barrels during the corresponding period last year, showing an increase of 5.8 percent.

The Survey said on average, the transport sector consumes 48.7 percent of the petroleum products followed by power sector 31.1 percent, industry 12.1 percent, household 3.8 percent, other government 2.5 percent and agriculture 1.8 percent during last 14 years.

Referring to natural gas, the Survey said the average production of natural gas per day stood at 3,681 million cubic feet during July-March, 2004-05, as compared to 3,210 million cubic feet over the same period last year, showing an increase of 14.7 percent.
The overall production of gas has increased to 1,003,198 million cubic feet during July-March 2004-05 as compared to 882,684 million cubic feet daily in the same period last year.

The total installed capacity of electricity stood at 19,389 MW during July-March 2004-05 as compared to 19,254 MW during the same period last year, it added.

Peace

Well, thank you for the contribution, Ajgir. I know you have a keen interest in CNG stuff. Good to see you in the forum. I almost thought you'd left this forum.

Now Pakistan has good numbers of CNG stations covering big cities and major highways. More and more private cars are turing to CNG due to expensive petrol cost. What Pakistan lacking is public tranportation and heavy vehicles going on CNG. The government is talking about this change for long and some initiatives are taken for all city transportation going on CNG by 2007. But transport mafia is resisting the change. Government should take firm stand and implement this "All CNG" policy as soon as possible. This will reduce our diesel import bill and our cities will be more cleaner. The government should reduce taxes on CNG fuels/kits and impose yearly tax (environment tax) for cars run on petrol and diesel.

In this case I salute Delhi City initiatives to turn all bus and small vehicles on CNG by court order.

Yes it's indeed a good trend...CNG is cheaper option and we have resources available for it as well...plus government is considereing to use our strategic location as coridoor of oil and gas transportation from midleast and central Asian republicans to India and far east Asia. It would also help to promote CNG consumption in Pakistan.

meengla,

Thank you for the compliments.

I post news – good or bad.

You gotta take the “rough with the smooth”.

Peace