This facility then sends CNG to the various gas stations across the city that were receiving low-pressure gas through the pipeline.
There was a sudden dearth of auto-rickshaws on the roads of Mumbai on Tuesday troubling Mumbaikars who were going for one-and-half day visarjan of Lord Ganpati. This happened due to the massive blaze inside the ONGC plant at Uran which, hit gas supply.
This facility processes Compressed Natural Gas and Piped Natural Gas and later supplied to Mahanagar Gas Limited. MGL that supplies both CNG and PNG in Mumbai Metropolitan Region. "Due to a major fire at ONGC's gas processing facility at Uran today morning, gas supply to MGL's city gate station at Wadala has been severely affected," MGL said in a statement.
This facility then sends CNG to the various gas stations across the city that were receiving low-pressure gas through the pipeline. Almost 62% of the total auto-rickshaws run in the Western suburbs of the 1.82 lakh auto-rickshaws registered in Mumbai RTOs.
"This incident namely affected Western suburbs namely between Mira Road and Andheri where autos struggled to get CNG at gas pumps. Due to this, at least 25-30% of rickshaws were off the road as they were busy standing in queues at gas stations. This is the second time in less than a month that the main supply line has been affected," said Thampi Kurien, an auto-rickshaw union leader.
Sources said that autos fill CNG at 210-220 bar (unit in which gas is filled). However, due to the incident, the pressure rate dropped considerably. The western suburbs get CNG from this plant while eastern suburbs get it from Gujarat. Gradually by late afternoon, the situation started improving at various CNG stations. MGL stated that the CNG stations were operational and said: "The gas supply to our city gate station at Wadala has been partially restored and the gas supply across MGL's network is getting progressively normalised".
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