Petrobangla has prioritised fertiliser factories, greed-feeding power plants and industrial boilers for the supply of natural gas and the installation of new connections.
Petrobangla, the state-run Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources Corporation, set the priority in the latest revised draft of Gas Utilisation Guideline to ensure the effective use of the limited natural resource, a Petrobangla official told New Age.
It has also decided to reduce gas supply to CNG filling stations and captive power plants in industries from 2015.
Petrobangla will curb the use of gas in domestic and commercial sector by introducing pre-paid metres in phases in next five years.
The guideline will come into effect after the approval of the energy ministry, the official said.
According to the draft guideline, Petrobangla wants to stop gas supply to the fertiliser factories after 2020. The fertiliser factories consume more than 35,000 cubic feet of gas to produce one tonne of urea fertiliser.
It has also suggested that the Natural Gas Fertiliser Factory should be shut down after the installation of a new fertiliser factory at Fenchuganj in Sylhet.
The corporation also wants to stop supplying gas to the greed-feeding power plants running at less than 35 per cent efficiency.
Among industries, export-oriented and labour intensive ones will get priority in getting new gas connections, the draft guideline says.
Price for pipeline gas used in domestic and commercial sectors will be increased and the price of Liquefied Natural Gas will be reduced so that both the prices become ‘rational’ for the consumers, it says.
The draft guideline also suggested an increase of the price of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) equivalent to the liquid fuel.
It also suggests that establishment of new CNG conversion workshops be stopped and the existing ones be shut down in phases from 2015.
Petrobangla also suggested more tax on the imported CNG-driven vehicles. (Source)
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