PARCO Mid Country (Kot Addu) Refinery — Pakistan

PARCO Mid Country (Kot Addu) Refinery is a refinery in Pakistan. Its listed capacity is 120,000 BBL per day. Refineries heat, fractionate and chemically transform crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through energy-intensive distillation and cracking — extremely demanding on steam generation and heat recovery. It is operated by Emirate of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). By capacity it ranks #2 among 5 oil refineries in Pakistan. It emits about 424,253 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 0.78% of the CO₂e from the 55 facilities in Pakistan that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 59% below the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3144046.

In context: how this facility compares

At 120,000 BBL per day, PARCO Mid Country (Kot Addu) Refinery is well above the median refinery in Pakistan (64,000 BBL per day). Subsector: oil-and-gas-refining. As refinery, it requires high process heat (typically 200–600°C) for its core industrial operations, supplied by boilers, furnaces or direct combustion. Refineries heat, fractionate and chemically transform crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through energy-intensive distillation and cracking — extremely demanding on steam generation and heat recovery.

Capacity & CO₂-intensity comparison computed from Climate TRACE industrial facilities data; sector role based on engineering reference.

What 424,253 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's estimated annual CO₂e (Climate TRACE, modelled) in everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:

Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest oil refineries in Pakistan

Listed capacity (BBL per day), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).

Operator

Operated by Emirate of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates).

Local climate

PARCO Mid Country (Kot Addu) Refinery sits in a hot desert climate zone (Köppen BWh), at 30.2°N in the northern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

Site climate & environmental severity

This site sits in a benign, low-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C1 — Very low), with dust abrasion the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1246 W/m² to ambient — roughly 0.96× the loss at a 20 °C reference. Reference-surface calculation at a 150 °C surface from WorldClim climate normals (ASTM C680 / ISO 12241) — an indicative per-climate comparison, not a measurement of this site’s specific equipment. Open method dataset: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20787408 (CC BY 4.0).

Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.

How it compares & nearby sites

The #2 largest of 5 oil refineries in Pakistan by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• D G Khan Cement Dera Ghazi Khan Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 1,059,620 t CO₂
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• Multan Fertilizers Complex · Chemical Plant · 2,005,679 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 30.16778, 70.93214. View on OpenStreetMap.

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