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Pak Arab Refinery Company Ltd.
Company type	Unlisted public company
Industry	Refinery
Founded	1974
Headquarters	Karachi-75190, Pakistan
Key people	Irteza Ali Qureshi (managing director)
Products	Oil, high speed diesel, kerosene oil, and petroleum distillates
Revenue	Rs. 956.040 billion (US$3.3 billion) (2023)
Operating income	Rs. 114.336 billion (US$400 million) (2023)
Net income	Rs. 66.596 billion (US$230 million) (2023)
Total assets	Rs. 381.433 billion (US$1.3 billion) (2023)
Total equity	Rs. 173.283 billion (US$600 million) (2023)
Owner	Government of Pakistan (60%); Mubadala Investment Company(40%)
Subsidiaries	Total Parco ; PARCO Coastal Refinery
Website	parco.com.pk
	Footnotes / references; Financials as of 30 June 2023

Pak-Arab Refinery Company Limited (PARCO) (Urdu: پاک عرب ریفائنری) is a Pakistani oil and gas company active in refining, transporting and marketing petroleum products.^[2] It is a joint-venture between governments of Pakistan and Abu Dhabi.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Operations

PARCO, a joint venture between Government of Pakistan and the Emirate of Abu Dhabi was incorporated as a public limited company in 1974. The Government of Pakistan holds 60% of the share holding while 40% of the shares are held by Emirate of Abu Dhabi.^[2]

The major business activities include Crude Oil Refining and Transportation, Storage and Marketing of petroleum products. With a refining capacity of 120,000 Barrels Per Day, combined storage capacity of over one million tons, a marketing joint venture with TOTAL (France) and a technical support venture with OMV (Austria); PARCO is the strategic fuel supplier for Pakistan. The organization encompasses Pakistan's second largest refinery (after Byco Petroleum Pakistan Ltd's ORC-2) and 2000 km of cross country pipeline network, including that of its subsidiary PAPCO. In 2010, the company set up a Diesel Hydro Desulfurization Unit to ensure that Diesel produced by the refinery meets international Euro-II standards. PARCO also commissioned a Biturox plant in 2012, which is expected to produce road paving bitumen. Pak-Arab Refinery Limited is a member of Oil Companies Advisory Council of Pakistan.

In September 2012, Pak-Arab Refinery completed its first acquisition by acquiring 100% shareholding of SHV Energy Pakistan, which prior to the acquisition was Pakistan's largest LPG marketing company and PARCO's strategic partner since 2001. On 12 April 2017, the company announced that it will use technologies from Honeywell to upgrade its refinery near Multan, Pakistan to produce cleaner-burning fuels. In 2019, Pak-Arab Refinery was building its coastal refinery project near Hub, Balochistan, which would be a state of the art refinery with capacity of 250,000 barrels per day with an estimated cost of over $ 5 billion.^[6]^[3]

Subsidaries

Total PARCO

Total Parco is a Pakistani oil marketing company based in Lahore, Pakistan. It is the second largest petrol pump network in Pakistan.^[7]

Total Parco was founded in 2002 as a joint venture between Pak-Arab Refinery (PARCO) and Total S.A.^[8]

In 2013, Total Parco acquired 438 petrol stations of Chevron Corporation Pakistan.^[9] The acquisition was completed in 2015 and Caltex petrol pumps were renamed as Total Parco.^[10]

In 2024, Gunvor acquired 50 percent stake of TotalEnergies in Total Parco.^[7]

Board of directors

Anees Shakeel from Sindh^[2]
Abdul Hadi Shah from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa^[2]
Bushra Naz Malik from Punjab^[2]
Syed Aoun Raza Rizvi^[2] overseas

References

^ "Pak-Arab Refinery Annual Report 2023" (PDF). Retrieved 1 August 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Prime Minister (PM) approves new Board of Directors Business Recorder (newspaper), Published 28 April 2020, Retrieved 14 September 2020
^ ^a ^b Sohail Iqbal Bhatti (1 July 2016). "PARCO to build Pakistan's 'biggest oil refinery' in Hub". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 15 September 2020.
^ Parvez Jabri (6 September 2011). "Prime Minister urges PARCO to invest in energy sector". Business Recorder (newspaper). Retrieved 14 September 2020.
^ Himendra Mohan Kumar (24 July 2008). "UAE - Pakistan trade touches $7 billion". Gulf News website. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
^ Imaduddin (9 July 2019). "Oil refineries directed to produce fuel conforming latest vehicles". Business Recorder (newspaper). Associated Press of Pakistan. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
^ ^a ^b Hunter, Archie; Mangi, Faseeh (6 August 2024). "Gunvor to Buy 50% Stake in Total's Pakistan Fuel Stations". Bloomberg.
^ "TOTAL-Parco secures 4.5pc market share". Dawn. 27 August 2003. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
^ Dinesh Nair and Michel Rose (17 September 2013). "France's Total snaps up Chevron's Pakistan retail network". Reuters News Agency website. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
^ Tariq Ahmed Saeedi. "Total Parco plans Rs21 billion investment for Caltex acquisition". The News International. Retrieved 15 September 2020.