Key Facts & Features

 

The Refinery is located at Mahmood Kot, which is in the Muzaffargarh District of Pakistan. The city of Multan, only 65 km, from the Refinery is well connected with a national communications network of rail, road and air. The nearest rail link is through Mahmood Kot which is about five kilometers from the Refinery.

 

Within a 30 km radius of the refinery, there are two thermal power complexes at Kot Addu and Muzaffargarh having a capacity of 1,500 and 1,300 MW respectively, while the 762 MW AES Fuel oil based thermal power complex at Lalpir is only 5 kilometers from the Refinery. The River Indus is around 10-15 kilometers on the South West side of the Refinery, while the River Chenab is 35 kilometers on the North East side of the Refinery.

 

At Mahmood Kot, the oil marketing companies are operating a petroleum product distribution terminal. This terminal, known as Joint Installation of Marketing companies (JIMCO), is connected by a pipeline with PARCO's Mahmood Kot Terminal. At this terminal, HSD produced at the refinery and received from Karachi through PARCO Pipeline is filled in rail wagons and road tankers for transportation to various locations in Punjab and NWFP provinces.


Similarly PARCO's Mahmood Kot–Faisalabad–Machike (MFM) Pipeline system originates from PARCO's Mahmood Kot terminal. This Pipeline carries HSD and Kerosene to Machike, near Sheikhupura, via Faisalabad.

 

Configuration and Unit Capacities
The Refinery is processing Crude Oil of Upper Zakhum from Abu Dhabi and Light Arabian Crude from Saudi Arabia. The Refinery Complex includes 11 Onsite Process Units besides numerous Offsite/Utilities Units and other permanent facilities with 46 tanks to store Crude oil; intermediate feeds stocks and finished products.

Offsite / Utilities Units

  • Steam, Feed Water and Condensate Handling System
  • Fuel Oil and Gas System.
  • Water Systems.
  • Plant and Instrument Air and Nitrogen System
  • Tankage and Blending System.
  • Product Transfer and Loading System.
  • Flare System
  • Effluent Collection, Treatment and Disposal System.
  • Electrical System.
  • Plant Buildings.
  • Safety and Fire Fighting.

The Utilities Comprise of the following:

  • Steam, Feed Water and Condensate Handling System
  • Fuel Oil and Fuel Gas System
  • Water Systems
  • Plant, Instrument Air and Nitrogen System
  • Flare System

Steam, Feed Water and Condensate System
The Steam System is designed to efficiently meet normal refinery demands. Treating facilities are specified to demineralise plant water and consistent with the highest-pressure stream to be produced in the Refinery. Condensate recovery for the reuse as boiler feed water is undertaken to the maximum extent practicable.

 

Fuel Oil and Fuel Gas System
Process Unit off-gas is collected and routed to one central mixing drum and then distributed to users, where centralized collection is not feasible, such as for low-pressure vent gas; the gas is utilized locally within the process heaters.

 

The Refinery fuel oil is circulated through supply and return headers in excess of the actual firing rate and the system has been designed to deliver to all users, sufficient fuel oil at pressures and viscosities consistent with burner specifications on other user needs.

 

The Water System
The Water system consists of water treatment, chemical addition, storage and distribution. The raw water is received from the Muzaffargarh canal and stored in the tanks. Cooling water is supplied from an evaporative cooling tower circulation system. The portable water circulation system consists of filtration, chlorination, storage and distribution.

 

Plant, Instrument Air and Nitrogen System
The compressors discharge to common air receiver. From this point, instrument air passes through dryers before being distributed throughout the plant. Instruments are dried using external electric heaters designed to achieve a water dew point of 20 °C. The System is fully equipped with knockout drums and pumps, water seals, seals, flare stack and flare tip, with pilots and remote ignition system. In addition, a flare for H2S (Hydrogen Sulphide) containing off-gasses provides an additional tip on the main flare stack.