Energy Minister Hammad Azhar on Saturday said discussions were under way with Russia to bring a gas pipeline from Kazakhstan, which will be cheaper than the imported LNG. “Therefore, this will require pricing mechanism.”The minister said the government had recently introduced legislation of weighted average price of gas. The minister claimed that this legislation will free the central bank from politicised decisions. But now we have introduced transparency in the whole affair, through a competitive open auction system.”He said the maximum electricity transmission in the last era was 20,800MW. “It has always used the ‘Sindh card’.”The minister claimed that Sindh was already consuming the majority of gas produced in that province.

Source: The Express Tribune January 16, 2022 21:27 UTC