KARACHI: While energy crisis has become part of life in Pakistan, power shortfall is expected to be worsen during the summer months owing to fuel problems arising from liquidity crunch and water shortage.
The Indus River System Authority has estimated the water availability during ongoing cropping season would be 20 percent lower than average, while Pakistan State Oil has informed the government that it may not be able to arrange fuel imports for May-August because of time constraints and financial problems.
The largest fuel supplier has defaulted in domestic and international payments for more than five times in recent weeks and paid penalties. It was reported the current stocks would last only for few weeks even with a scaled down supplies of 15,000 tonnes per day.
Another report said that complete dry out and disruption in the supply chain would be on the second week of May.
The power sector needs at least 28,000 tonnes per day of furnace oil to utilise its full thermal generation capacity.
INTERNEWS
