PRL launches $1.7b refinery upgrade project

Pakistan Refinery Limited (PRL) has kick-started a refinery expansion and upgrade project (REUP) costing $1.7 billion in a bid to double its installed crude processing capacity to 100,000 barrels per day and boost the production of products with high profit margins as well as low-sulphur fuel including Euro-II and Euro-V petrol and diesel.

In addition, the installation of a deep-conversion refinery, a relatively new technology, along with the existing hydro-skimming refinery will give an edge to the state-owned company, which will become a pioneer in producing propylene chemical in the country. The chemical is used in the production of polypropylene plastics.

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