On the recommendation of the fact-finding committee, Prime Minister Imran Khan has removed Managing Directors of Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Ltd. (SNGPL) and Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC).
Khan had taken action and ordered an inquiry after the Industrial sectors of Sindh and Punjab came to a standstill with a total gas outage across both provinces on December 12.
The Petroleum division had formed a four-member fact-finding committee under the chair of OGRA’s chairperson Uzma Adil.
Qazi Saleem Siddiqui, DG(PC), Shahid Yousaf DG(Gas) and Imran Ahmad, DG(LG) were the other members of the committee.
Three weeks after the incident, the committee submitted its report to Secretary petroleum, who forwarded it to the PM with his own recommendations a few days back. The report held the managing directors of gas companies responsible for the gas crisis.
The prime minister, by the findings, ordered the removal of MDs of SNGPL Amjad Latif and SSGC Muhammad Amin Rajput with immediate effect.
PM Khan also chaired a Cabinet Meeting on Energy on Tuesday. The meeting decided in principle not to extend the export subsidy to refineries located in coastal areas for furnace oil export, The News reported.
However, Parco and Attock refineries would be exempted from the decision as they will pay on-land freight up to Karachi-port city.
The government has also formed a committee to determine if the refineries will face a loss in profit while exporting the furnace oil.
It should be mentioned here that the PTI-led government has also placed a ban on the import of furnace oil for the power sector.
Need New MD of SSGC, PEMRA, FBR, ENERGY SECTOR ETC
that’s how you place your preferred ones to the posts…;p
Ghulam Sarwar Khan ( A fake degree holder ) and BA in arts is our Minister of Petroleum. He has a degree in Arts and now running the most important ministry that needs huge experience and scientific and technical knowledge. Why not remove your own ethnic fellow ministers Mr Imran Khan?.
Both MDs that are removed have a degree in Petroleum with more than 25 years of experience in the said field. But they cannot explain everything to their Head who has a degree in History and has nothing to do with Energy, Science and Technology.
Imran Khan will protect his friends and fellows and no minister will ever be fired. But the professionals working under these illiterate and uneducated thugs will be fire to be used as scapegoats.
You are talking sense,
I am currently involved in this industry, i can tell you that no body can prevent such accidents specially the MDs, Lol that they fired the MDs instead of improving the department, its the very bottom workforce and middle management thats mostly responsible for such negligence
PTI is acting in reactive mode, which is very dangerous, i am unable to see any proactive decision from them, but sadly it has been always like that for past governments
that was not the mandate of PM to remove the MDs
as per company act 2017