HDIP’s two projects to be incorporated in PSDP

ISLAMABAD: The Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan (HDIP) has planned two development projects worth Rs892.236 million, which would be incorporated in the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for the year 2017/18.

The projects would help upgrade its testing facilities operating across the country and ensure provision of quality fuel to the 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," sources told APP.

The projects had already been approved by the National Assembly Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Resources and would be incorporated in the PSDP 2017/18, they said. 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 the international standards for maintaining supply of quality fuel.

The project would increase the capacity of KLC to test samples of imported POL products from ships, inspect and collect samples from all oil marketing companies' terminals and depots, refineries, lube oil blending plants, lube oil reclamation plants, and grease and transformer oil plants, the sources added.