Second LNG terminal will resolve our power crisis: Shahid Khaqan

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Petroleum, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Thursday said ten cargo ships of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) have arrived while the import target for this year is 30 such ships.

Addressing a press conference, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said the previous governments kept trying for 10 years to get LNG but the incumbent government succeeded in bringing the much-needed fuel in just twenty months.

He said the LNG terminal was also built in a record period and that the country’s electricity shortage will be overcome with the construction of second such terminal.

Declaring LNG as the best option to plug gas shortage, he said oil mafia in the country is against availability of cheap electricity to the people.

He said due to the present gas shortage, the system is unable to generate 18,010 MW electricity.