Are we rearing a gas crisis?

Hardly a new gas field has been discovered or developed in the recent times. There has also been no worthwhile effort to seal leakage of the Titas gas field. Furthermore, no new notable gas transmission infrastructure has yet seen the light of the day. Demand for gas has increased significantly in the meantime. Production crisis and transmission constraints of the gas system have created severe problems for power generation, fertilizer production and operation of industries. Gas transportation is found to be affected by low pressure over the entire gas grid as the transmission system in the major segment or corridor, is supersaturated. No effective on-stream pigging to clean these pipelines has been conducted since their commissioning. Pipeline compressor stations are also missing in the system. Can any government committed to people's well-being through an accelerated pace of economic growth on a sustained footing, tolerate this situation for long? What are the answers of our ener