Gas Grou

Company Description

Gas Group is a privately owned company, registered with the Ministry of Commerce, Government of Afghanistan and has been established since 2006, but its history with constituent parts goes back many years to the changes of late 2001. The sum of these parts is summarized below.Gas Group is wholly committed to customer service, whether in bulk to industrial customers, or through the distribution system outlined above. By basing the company business plan on large volume throughput to generate profit, the price to customers will be kept low. This broadens the market and enables loGas Grour income groups to benefit from the availability of this ample resource for heating in winter and cooking year round.The accent on turnover for profit will also have a positive environmental input. The truckloads of firewood and brushwood seen stripping the countryside daily is already causing a problem of erosion and will result in desertification ultimately if not checked.Gas Group will provide door-to-door service for all sizes of cylinder starting first in Macro Ryan, with 5 trucks on rounds, and increasing to coverage of the whole of Kabul with 200 trucks in successive stages. The emphasis will be on quality, both of propane gas and valve and regulator combination mounted on the cylinders. Careful attention has been paid to the safety considerations surrounding this energy market both in the storage and re-filling facilities and with cylinder equipment. Everything is designed to maximise safety and institute confidence in the customer with the product supplied by Gas Group.Presently, Gas Group imports propane gas from Turkmenistan by rail to Turghundi where there is a large 500 tonne storage facility with another 500 tonne facility in Herat. Tankers carry the gas by road from Herat through Kandahar to Kabul where there is an 800 tonne facility for storage and distribution. Automation of the cylinder re-filling process is in hand in Kabul. A 300 tonne facility is under