Country’s largest refinery ready for production

[SHAMK9]

Byco Oil Pakistan Limited has announced that the company has completed its oil refinery at Lasbella district, Balochistan, which is the country’s largest and will have the capacity to refine 120,000 barrels of oil per day.

According to a press release issued on Wednesday, the refinery is in the pre-commissioning stage as plants and equipment are being checked and tested.
Cold circulation of crude oil has already been established and sustained. Also furnaces of different processing units have been test-fired.
“The refinery is ready for hot commissioning and start-up,” Byco said. Combined with the existing and fully operative smaller refinery, the cumulative refining capacity of Byco will be over 155,000 barrels per day, 55% higher than the existing largest refinery in Pakistan.
This will enhance overall crude oil refining capacity of the country from existing 12.25 to 18 million tons per year and will significantly contribute to reducing import of refined petroleum products.
In his comments, Byco Oil CEO Qaiser Jamal stated, “This milestone, for sure, has been made possible with sheer hard work of our employees and support and cooperation of all our contractors.”

Byco said along with the new refinery, whose capacity can be expanded to 180,000 bpd, the country’s first isomerisation plant was also being started. Isomerisation technology will not only enable the refinery to produce higher volumes of motor gasoline to meet demand, but this will be the first environment-friendly motor gasoline.
First parcel of crude oil for the refinery will arrive at the single-point mooring 10 km into the Arabian Sea, for direct discharge to the refinery’s storage tanks.
With an investment of over $600 million, Byco also operates a petroleum marketing network comprising 222 retail outlets.
Amir Abbassciy, CEO of Byco Industries Incorporated said, “These are the first significant steps towards achieving our aim to be an integrated oil to chemicals and related infrastructure business.”
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[Secur]

Let the import of Oil from Tehran begin !

 

[SamranAli]

im happy its in Balochistan

 

[Baby Leone]

really nice.... we need more refineries & oil explorations

 

[Tangent]

Good News...Crude will come from wherte???

 

[My-Analogous]

I already post this name of the post is "New oil refinery start production i October 2012". Admin please closed this thread

 

[Jango]

Oh man that is a huge facility.

And that too in Balochistan. So no more drastic need for oil to go to refineries near Multan and incurring additional transport charges. (I know there are facilities in Karachi as well).

 

[SHAMK9]

Byco's Single point mooring commissioned: First large oil ship arrived
KARACHI:
Byco’s single point mooring (SPM), Pakistan’s first such facility which has been set up on the coast of the Arabian Sea some 14km from the company’s Mouza Kund site, has been commissioned.
According to a press release, this facility, with a draft of 25 metres, can accommodate larger size vessels carrying over 100,000 tons of crude and petroleum products.
Crude oil tanker, MT Arietis, completed discharge of 70,000 tons of crude oil, marking the commissioning of the SPM. The discharge rate peaked at 2,380 tons per hour and averaged over 2,000 tons per hour, emptying the first cargo of 70,000 tons in 39 hours.
This compares favourably to the discharge rates of 1,500-1,600 tons per hour Byco experienced at Fotco, Port Qasim.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 2nd, 2013.
This tanker came:

 

[mosu]

good news for Pakistan

 

[Xracer]

im happy its in Balochistan

i am happy its in Pakistan

 

[somebozo]

now only if BLA terrorist would spare it!
Baluchistan has the potential to rival Dubai if we can manage the peace and security over there.
And keep trouble makers out!

 

[Icewolf]

now only if BLA terrorist would spare it!

BLA & BRA are 1% of what they were before... Their bodies are not even given a proper burial anymore by PA & ISI

 

[Jango]

now only if BLA terrorist would spare it!
Baluchistan has the potential to rival Dubai if we can manage the peace and security over there.
And keep trouble makers out!

I see there is some geographical confusion here.

Lasbela is a district bordering Sindh, and this particular refinery is 20 km from Karachi. Additionally there was previously a HUBCO power plant located there, and still is.

So no question of BLA.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Congratulations to Pakistani citizens........

 

[Secur]

All thanks to FC for getting the situation under control and allowing Baluch people to look for a better future which isn't dominated by a few tribes or warlords ! As " all men are created equal " so should be their share ...