The Attock Refinery Limited () is a Pakistani petroleum company which is a subsidiary of UK-domiciled
Attock Oil Company. It is active in
crude oil
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refining
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Refining (also perhaps called by the mathematical term affining) is the process of purification of a (1) substance or a (2) form. The term is usually used of a natural resource that is almost in a usable form, b ...
in the country.
[Company Profile of Attock Refinery Limited on MarketScreener.com website]
Retrieved 15 September 2020 The company is based in
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi ( or ; Urdu, ) is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad, and third largest in Punjab after Lahore and Faisalabad. Rawalpindi is next to Pakistan's ...
,
Punjab
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,
Pakistan
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.
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The company is listed on ]Pakistan Stock Exchange
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The PSX was established on 11 ...
.
Refinery's petroleum products
Some of its major products include:
* Liquefied petroleum gas
Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG or LP gas) is a fuel gas which contains a flammable mixture of hydrocarbon gases, specifically propane, propylene, butylene, isobutane and n-butane.
LPG is used as a fuel gas in heating appliances, cooking e ...
(LPG)[
* Unleaded premium motor gasoline
* Mineral turpentine
* Kerosene oil
* High speed diesel][
* Jet petroleum
* Petroleum solvents][
* Light diesel oil
* Furnace fuel oil
* Paving grade asphalts][
]
See also
* List of oil refineries
This is a list of oil refineries. '' Oil & Gas Journal'' publishes a worldwide list of refineries annually in a country-by-country tabulation that includes for each refinery: location, crude oil daily processing capacity, and the size of each proc ...
* Attock Group of Companies
References
External links
Attock Refinery Limited
Attock Refinery Limited Detailed Company Financials
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Companies listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange
Oil and gas companies of Pakistan
Oil refineries in Pakistan
Pakistani subsidiaries of foreign companies
Indian companies established in 1922
Companies based in Rawalpindi
Energy companies established in 1922
Formerly government-owned companies of Pakistan
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