Engineering Post Report
Attock Refinery Limited, the only refinery in the north of Pakistan, has shut down two of its units due to low product lifting by oil marketing companies resulting in high petrol and high-speed diesel stocks.
According to ARL sources, the dispatch pattern for December 2023 had continued to remain depressed as a result of which stocks of Premier Motor Gasoline (Perol) and High Speed Diesel (HSL) had reached very high levels with little or no ullage in storage tanks especially those of petrol. The sources said that in order to manage the high stock of these products, the company has shut down two of its crude distillation units temporarily to manage the refinery operations.
