National News

ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT+APP): The Price Negotiation Committee (PNC)
is in the process to finalize the cost for establishment of a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal at the Gwadar deep seaport with the China Petroleum Pipeline (CPP).
“PNC has held several meetings with CPP to negotiate price the for
LNG terminal. The final round of price negotiations is expected soon
whereafter the recommendations of the PNC will be submitted to the
Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet for approval,”
official sources in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources told APP.
They said the PNC, constituted by the ECC, comprised Secretaries
Ministries of Petroleum and Natural Resources, Finance, Law Division, Board
of Investment or his nominee, Managing Directors of Sui Northern Gas
Pipelines Limited and Inter State Gas Systems.
The sources informed that PNC and CPP, a Chinese company, also
held several meetings to negotiate the contract price for laying a 42-inch
diameter pipeline from Gwadar to Nawab Shah, which would have the
capacity to handle up to 500 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) of
gas.
They said final recommendations of the PNC had been prepared and
were being submitted to ECC for approval, adding that PC-I for the 700-
kilometer gas pipeline had already been approved by the Central
Development Working Party (CDWP) and Executive Committee of the
National Economic Council (ECNEC).