Pakistan LPG marketers seek daily pricing after reported border disruption
An industry representative wants Pakistan to replace monthly LPG price setting with weekly or daily adjustments as traders report disrupted imports and rising costs.
Pakistan’s liquefied petroleum gas marketers urged the government on October 18 to replace monthly price setting with weekly or daily adjustments after a reported closure of the Rahimdad-250 border post disrupted supplies, Dawn reported. The demand comes ahead of winter, when LPG use traditionally rises and tighter supply could affect consumers.
Mohammad Ali Haider, vice chairman of the LPG Marketing Association, which Dawn says represents more than 200 companies, also called for prices to be delinked from Saudi Aramco’s Contract Price. He told Dawn that LPG prices had risen by Rs100 per kilogram over the weekend. That increase is his account of market prices, rather than a change established by the regulator’s published listing.
Why marketers want more frequent LPG price changes
Haider said war-related insurance and freight premiums had pushed import costs to about $300 per tonne above the Saudi benchmark, according to Dawn. Stakeholders argue that the pricing policy has been unchanged for more than a decade and that monthly advance notifications discourage state-owned enterprises from importing. Their proposal would allow notified prices to respond more often to changing costs; the government has not announced a switch to weekly or daily pricing.
Pakistan consumes nearly two million tonnes of LPG a year, with about 30% produced domestically and 70% imported, Dawn reported. Its account says more than 4,500 tonnes of LPG were stranded on the Iranian side of the border. Those cargo and consumption figures come from Dawn’s report; the regulator’s price listing does not establish them.
Border and import rules add to supply concerns
Dawn also reported that the Ministry of Commerce issued memorandums on October 16 withdrawing electronic import form exemptions for Iranian imports and for shipments to Central Asian republics and Azerbaijan through Iran. The report said the Taftan crossing had remained closed for nearly six months over security concerns, while Mand had faced intermittent disruptions. Together with the reported Rahimdad-250 closure, those conditions form the supply backdrop cited by the trade.
The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority lists an Indigenous LPG Prices Notification for October 2026 alongside notifications for earlier months. Its public listing establishes the monthly notification framework but gives no confirmation of the weekend market increase reported by Haider. Dawn said petroleum minister Ali Pervaiz Malik and ministry spokesman Zafar Abbas did not respond to its written queries.
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Sources and context
- LPG stakeholders seek daily pricing amid soaring ratesDawn
- LPG Notified PricesOil and Gas Regulatory Authority of Pakistan
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