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TRADE CHRONICLE<br />
Country’s largest oil refinery unveiled<br />
Nawaz says: Byco refinery would make self sufficient in crude oil refining<br />
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has<br />
inaugurated country’s largest Byco oil<br />
refinery complex with a crude oil<br />
refining capacity of 120,000 barrels<br />
per day at Lasbella in Balochistan<br />
recently. Hopefully it will meet<br />
around 39 per cent of country’s<br />
energy requirements and minimize<br />
down reliance on imports.<br />
The refinery built by the Byco Group<br />
has attracted in an investment of US<br />
750 million and will produce about 1.6<br />
million tons of Fuel oil, 2.4 million tons<br />
of diesel and 1.1 million tons of LPG<br />
annually.<br />
The Prime Minister said the refinery<br />
is an appreciable addition to the oil<br />
and gas sector, and will go a long<br />
way in achieving sustainable<br />
productivity and increased<br />
profitability.<br />
He said currently, Pakistan requires<br />
22 million tons oil, but the country is<br />
still short of capacity to refine crude<br />
oil. He said it would take time to<br />
achieve complete self-sufficiency.<br />
He noted the role of Byco Group in<br />
oil refining and said the setting up of<br />
the second refinery would help<br />
generate employment opportunities<br />
and help the country achieve selfsufficiency<br />
in crude oil refining.<br />
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said it<br />
is his government’s vision to make<br />
Gwadar a free port and assured that<br />
necessary legislation would be done<br />
soon to accord it the status.<br />
He said the Port would be connected<br />
through road, rail links to Peshawar<br />
Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif unveiling the plaque of Byco Oil<br />
Refinery Complex II at Lasbella Baluchistan on <strong>June</strong> 12, <strong>2015</strong>.<br />
and then onwards to Central Asian<br />
Republics. He said a beautiful road<br />
was being constructed from Gwadar<br />
to Chaman, near Quetta, while<br />
another option was to link it with<br />
Wakhan corridor in Afghanistan, from<br />
where it can be connected to the<br />
Central Asian Republics.<br />
Prime Minister Sharif asked Finance<br />
Minister Ishaq Dar to consider giving<br />
more concessions to new industries<br />
in taxation to woo more foreign<br />
investment.<br />
Chief Executive of Byco Industries<br />
Amir Abbasi said the project,<br />
completed in six years, enjoys a<br />
substantial position in the value<br />
addition chain of hydrocarbon from<br />
the well-head to the consumer.<br />
He said Byco has so far invested<br />
US$750 million into country’s<br />
infrastructural and industrial<br />
development.<br />
Arif Masood Naqvi, CEO of Abraaj<br />
Capital Limited said the Middle<br />
East’s premier private equity fund<br />
would like to make more<br />
investments in Pakistan in various<br />
areas.<br />
With new refinery, Pakistan has joined<br />
the club of countries with Single Point<br />
Mooring (SPM) facilities in the deep<br />
sea to transport crude oil through a<br />
pipeline to refineries set up along the<br />
coast.<br />
Byco Terminals Pakistan Limited<br />
(BTPL) has set up its terminals in<br />
Keemari and Mahmoodkot and has<br />
acquired land at Shikarpur and<br />
Machike for terminal installation.<br />
The SPM has been set up in the North<br />
Arabian Sea at a distance of<br />
approximately 14 kilometers from the<br />
Byco’s Mouza Kund Site located at<br />
Hub, and is 10 km inside the sea at<br />
2.5 metres deep.<br />
<strong>Trade</strong> <strong>Chronicle</strong> - <strong>May</strong> - <strong>June</strong> <strong>2015</strong> - Page # 12
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