The caretaker federal government has notified a massive hike in gas prices which would be taken into effect on November 1.
The Petroleum Division issued a notification regarding the massive hike in gas prices for domestic, export, non-export units, CNG, cement and other sectors.
However, the gas prices were not hiked for protected consumers using 25 to 90 cubic metres in a month, however, the fixed charges for this category of consumers were increased from Rs10 to Rs400.
The notification stated that the gas prices for non-protected domestic consumers were hiked by over 172%.
The gas prices for different slabs of consumers are as follows:
- Consumers using 25 cubic metres: From Rs200 to Rs300 per mmBtu
- Consumers using 60 cubic metres: From Rs300 to Rs600 per mmBtu
- Consumers using 100 cubic metres: From Rs400 to Rs1,000 per mmBtu
- Consumers using 150 cubic metres: From Rs600 to Rs1,200 per mmBtu
- Consumers using 200 cubic metres: From Rs800 to Rs1,600 per mmBtu
- Consumers using 300 cubic metres: From Rs1,100 to Rs3,000 per mmBtu
- Consumers using 400 cubic metres: From Rs2,000 to Rs3,500 per mmBtu
- Consumers using over 400 cubic metres: From Rs3,100 to Rs4,000 per mmBtu
- Tandoors: Rs600 per mmBtu (previous rate is maintained)
- Power plants: Rs1,050 per mmBtu
- Cement sector: Rs4,400 per mmBtu
- CNG sector: Rs3,600 per mmBtu
- Export units: Rs2,100 per mmBtu
- Non-export units: Rs2,200 per mmBtu
