Re: No CNG for Punjab, federal capital in Nov, Dec, Jan: minister
Bhai … there is no such thing required as regassification when converting LNG into Natural gas … and thus no expenses. Once LNG comes out of its container, lower temperature would automatically turn LNG into Natural Gas … and that gas would get fed to already existing piping to people’s home as well as to CNG stations. So, no extra cost.
LNG is expensive from Natural gas because it is cooled to such low temperature that it becomes Liquid, still it is cheaper (and also cleaner when used) then crude oil.
Anyhow, a country would only import LNG if they could not get natural gas directly from a country. Pakistan can. With a neighbour like Iran that has largest world gas reserves, Pakistan should not worry.
Pakistan has already made contract with Iran (signed by Zardari) that all related pipelines in Pakistan would get completed by end of 2014 else Pakistan would be paying heavy penalty to Iran … and that means, most likely by end of 2014 Pakistan would start getting huge amount of Gas from Iran, and feeding that gas to people’s houses as well as CNG stations … no problem.
Actually, I have heard that Pakistan is also thinking to buy LNG from UAE … so, even though that would be expensive gas than Iranian gas, Pakistan would have imported natural gas for houses as well as CNG stations