ISLAMABAD: Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan (HDIP) would spend Rs 892.236 million on upgradation of its testing facilities operating across the country to ensure provision of quality fuel to consumers.
“The institute, under two projects worth Rs457.766 million and Rs434.47 million, will upgrade Karachi Laboratories Complex (KLC) in two years, testing facilities at Islamabad, Lahore, Multan, Peshawar, Quetta and ISO Certification of Petroleum Testing Laboratory Islamabad in three years respectively,” official sources told APP Wednesday.
The projects, they said, had already been approved from the National Assembly Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Resources, and would be incorporated in the Public Sector Development Programme 2017-18.
The sources said the KLC would be transformed into a state-of-the-art base by equipping it with a complete range of POL products’ testing facilities at par with international standard for maintaining supply of quality of fuel.
The project would increase the capacity of KLC to test samples of imported POL products from ships, inspection and collection of samples from all oil marketing companies’ terminals and depots, refineries, lube oil blending plants, lube oil reclamation plants, grease and transformer oil
plants.
While, under the second project HDIP would upgrade its laboratories in Islamabad, Lahore, Multan, Peshawar, Quetta for testing locally produced and imported petroleum products like gasoline, diesel oils, furnace oil, transformer oil, lubricating oil and greases at a cost of Rs 434.47 million, the sources added.
