Domestic users may get gas only at meal times in winter
A proposed gas loadshedding schedule would leave households with about eight hours of supply a day as the Petroleum Ministry prepares to brief the prime minister.
A draft plan would limit domestic piped gas to about eight hours in each 24-hour period this winter.
Supply would be aimed at breakfast, afternoon and dinner times; other hours would likely see cuts.
The Petroleum Ministry has finished its winter supply work and plans to present it to the prime minister soon.
SNGPL and SSGC would issue separate regional schedules; no final approval has been announced.
SNGPL is supplying 487 million cubic feet a day to homes and SSGC 286 million cubic feet a day.