PTT to best deal with temporary gas stop from JDA

BANGKOK, June 26 (TNA) - PTT Public Company Limited (PTT), Thailand's largest petroleum firm, is urgently fixing a problem that has caused a temporary stop of its gas supply from the Malaysia–Thailand Joint Development Area (JDA) in the Gulf of Thailand to prevent any serious impact on the public. PTT Executive Vice President Noppadol Pinsupa echoed his company's policy on June 25, stressing that PTT is working closely with clients in Thailand's southern and eastern regions, including power plants and natural gas stations, by supplying diesel or natural gas from other sources to them temporarily. "PTT is doing the best to work closely with our clients in order to cause the least impact to the public, while also urgently detecting and fixing the problem that has caused the current disruption of the natural gas supply from JDA-18", Noppadol vowed. Under a legal contract, the PTT executive vice president said, his company normally acquires about 440 million cubic feet of natural gas from JDA daily, 180 million cubic feet of which is supplied to the Chana Power Plant in Songkhla Province in the Thai Far South, another five million cubic feet is supplied for the further production of natural gas for vehicles (NGVs) to serve local gas stations and another 255 million cubic feet is supplied to the eastern Thai region. The PTT executive vice president noted that his company has temporarily provided the Chana Power Plant with diesel and fully supplied natural gas from other sources to clients in the eastern region. The PTT executive vice president conceded that 5 out of 16 PTT-owned NGVs stations in the Thai South need to temporarily halt their services, while the rest has been supplied with NGVs from Ratchaburi Province in the central region. The PTT executive vice president also urged motorists to carefully plan the use of their vehicles or switch to other kinds of fuel temporarily. (TNA)