National Refinery Limited

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Summary Information

• Ownership: Attock Oil
• Website: http://www.nrlpak.com/
• Location: Karachi, Pakistan
• Capacity: 2.71 million tons/annum & 54.000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:

Brief Description

• A small simple refinery
• The refinery complex of the Company comprises of three refineries, consisting of two lube refineries and one fuel refinery.

Refining Units

• Crude Distillation Unit
• Naphtha Hydro treating Unit
• Platforming Unit
• Kero Hydro treating Unit

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil: 163,000 tons
• Refined Products: 90,000 tons

Crude Supply

• S. Arabia, Pakistan

Products Produced

• Motor Gasoline (MOGAS)
• Kerosene (SKO)
• Jet A-1
• JP-8
• High Speed diesel Oil (HSD)
• Light diesel oil (LDO)
• Furnace Oil (F.O)
• Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)
• Naphtha

Ongoing Projects

• See National Refinery Limited Upgrading Project
• A slurry hydrocracker is being added to eliminate fuel oil & increase diesel & lubricant production
• NRL is presently producing HSD of around 1.0 % sulfur content. In view of clean fuel quality requirements, NRL is planning upgradation of its facilities to enable production of HSD of 0.05 wt. % Sulfur content. Ultimate aim is to reduce sulfur further to 50 parts per million. UOP, an international process designer & licensor, is carrying out techno economic feasibility for conversion of redundant Kero Hydrobon unit to Diesel service.
• After project completion, NRL will be the first refinery in Pakistan to produce diesel of low sulfur upto 500 ppm and further to less than 50 ppm - ULSD, i.e. Euro IV Specification.

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History

• 1966 - First Lube Refinery commissioned by Snamprogetti with designed capacity of 539,700 tons per annum of Crude Processing and 76,200 tones per annum of Lube Base Oils.
• 1977 - The Fuel Refinery commissioned with designed capacity of 1,500,800 tones per annum of Crude processing and after revamp the designed capacity comes to 2,170,800 tones per annum of Crude processing.
• 1985 - Second Lube Refinery commissioned with designed capacity of 100,000 tons per annum of Lube Base Oils.
• 1985 - The BTX unit was commissioned with design capacity of 25,000 tons per annum of BTX
• 2005 - The refinery was privatised, and purchased by Attock Oil

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