Associated Group, founded in 1965, by Z. Z. Ahmed, has interests in the LNG and LPG industries in Pakistan.

Their company Pakistan GasPort Limited operates Pakistan’s first greenfield LNG (liquefied natural gas) import, regasification and storage facility at Port Qasim, near Karachi. Since its operations commenced in January, 2018, till Q3 2021, over 180 LNG vessels have been unloaded at the GasPort Terminal and over 533 billion cubic feet of gas has been injected in the national gas network. Norway-based BW Group is the supplier of the Floating Storage Regasification Unit at the Terminal, which has a storage capacity in excess of 170,000m3 and a peak regasification capacity of 750mmscfd. The brand-new FSRU was manufactured at the Samsung Heavy Industries, in Busan, South Korea.