State-run Pakistan LNG Limited (PLL) is in the process of allocating idle capacity of the second LNG terminal to the private sector. After allocation, the private sector will be importing LNG for the first time in Pakistan. The private sector had been struggling since long to import LNG. Earlier, the private sector faced delay in LNG import due to bureaucratic hurdles and the monopoly of gas companies despite the functioning of terminals at less-than-full capacity. The Petroleum Division was directed not to curtail gas supply to the domestic sector to meet the shortfall in the industrial sector as the federal cabinet had already accorded priority to gas supply to the domestic sector.

Source: The Express Tribune October 29, 2020 03:22 UTC