Mid Country Refinery

 

Commissioned in the year 2000, PARCO’s 100,000 barrels per day, state-of-the-art Mid-Country Refinery (MCR) at Mahmood Kot near Multan, represents about 35% of Pakistan’s refining capacity. It helps substitute import of refined, value-added oil products to the tune of US$ 100 million per year.

PARCO's Mid-Country Refinery, is the country's latest, largest and most complex refinery and employs critical processes involved in refining. The primary control centre is the Main Control Room with a microprocessor-based Distributed Control System (DCS). In addition, three subsidiary control rooms collectively manage eleven On-site Process Units and Off-site/utilities and other permanent facilities with 46 tanks to store Crude Oil, intermediate feeds stocks and finished products besides other specific areas of the refinery. The MCR mainly processes Crude Oil of Upper Zakum from Abu Dhabi and Light Arabian Crude from Saudi Arabia.

Refinery’s Housing Complex
The refinery’s housing complex provides complete accommodation for its employees and their families with all the latest facilities like hospital, school, club, gymnasium, bowling alley, parks, mosque, hospital, auditorium, shopping center, sports complexes, cricket, hockey, football  and other grounds for sports, and much more.