Pakistan Refinery to upgrade

Pakistan Refinery Limited (PRL) will invest Rs11 billion (US$181.83 million) in the next three years to upgrade its refinery to meet Pakistan’s future product specifications. The additional units will include a diesel hydrotreater, visbreaker, hydrogen generating plant, deasphalting unit, sulfur recovery unit, amino treatment unit and vacuum distillation. These units will produce premium quality products meeting Euro-II fuel specifications for the local, as well as the export, market. Aftab Hussain, general manager commercial and supply, said that one of the salient features of the investment was the reduction of sulfur content in diesel fuel to 0.05% from the current 1%. (August 25, 2006)