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Ziqa’ aad 17, 1431 October 26, 2010 Annual turnaround in Zamzama Gasfield would cripple industries: KCCI

Dec-Jan should be selected for such activity when electricity load is less

Chairman, Businessmen Group & former President-KCCI, Siraj Kassam Teli, Vice Chairmen Businessmen Group & former Presidents-KCCI, Tahir Khaliq, M. Zubair Motiwala, Haroon Farooki and Anjum Nisar, Muhammad Saeed Shafiq, President, Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Talat Mahmood, Senior Vice President and Junaid Esmail Makda, Vice President KCCI in a press statement vehemently reject the decision of SSGC to do the annual turnaround for Zamzama Gasfield from Oct 27 to Nov 4, 2010.

It’s a strange activity heard for the first time in 62 years and apparently to be done every year on annual basis. The massive load shedding of 10-14 hours arising because of annual turnaround would further cripple the economic wheel as it simply suggest industries and manufacturing concerns to close facilities for the designated eight-days. SSGC is suggesting KESC to run on furnace oil which is not a possibility as the furnace oil available is not of that quality and secondly PSO only supplies on cash basis, the statement said.

The business and industrial community forcefully reject such kind of activity and request the President, Mr Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister, Mr Yousuf Raza Gillani and Federal Minister for Water and Power, Raja Pervez Ashraf, to look into the matter on Urgent basis and defer turnaround period to the winter season (Dec-Jan) when the electricity load is cut by 10-15% (no AC’s usage) and the load on KESC would be comparatively less when such activity could be accommodated with less hours of announced loadshedding.