PM to inaugurate PAPCO’s White Oil Pipeline Mogas project

ISLAMABAD: Honorable Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahid Khaqan Abbasi will be the chief guest at the groundbreaking ceremony of White Oil Pipeline Mogas Project by Pak Arab Pipeline Company Limited (PAPCO) being held on December 22, 2017, at PAPCO’s Port Qasim station.

PAPCO intends to implement this project in order to convert its existing 26" dia 786 km long White Oil Pipeline (WOP) for Multi-product use. It is a strategic nature of project which involves the construction of new HSD and Mogas storage tanks, Gantries for product delivery and Transmix Processing Facility including related civil, mechanical, electrical, instrument and control works.

After completion of WOP MOGAS project, storage of 255,000 tonnes of fuel capacity will be added into the system. The project has significant advantages for the country and the energy sector, including reduced cost of transportation for Mogas from Karachi to Mahmood Kot by less than 50 per cent, bringing in efficiency, safety, reliability and improvement in the logistics system of the country and reduction in degradation of road infrastructure.