INTERNSHIP

REPORT
Attock Refinery Limited

Obaid Ur Rehman
ME-133042
Semester: 7th
BS Mechanical Engineering
Attock Refinery Limited, Rawalpindi
Duration: July-August 2016 (6Weeks)

Date: 29 September, 2016

Table of Contents
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Acknowledgement.....................................................................................2

Company Background...............................................................................3
2.1

History..................................................................................................3

2.2

Organization.........................................................................................4

2.2.1 Attock petroleum Limited...............................................................4

2.2.2 Attock Cement Pakistan Limited.....................................................4
2.2.3 Attock Gen Limited.........................................................................4
2.2.4 National Refinery Limited...............................................................5
2.3

Working Procedure...............................................................................5

2.4

Achievements.......................................................................................6

2.5

Products of Company...........................................................................6

Departments and Projects.........................................................................7

Training Summary.....................................................................................7

Key Learning and Applicability..................................................................8

How Internship has affected my Career Goals?.........................................8

Comments.................................................................................................9

Problem faced and Solution.......................................................................9

Summary...................................................................................................9

1 Acknowledgement
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I would like to thank Sir Ehtisham Arif for his mentoring during this
internship. I am also thankful to Sir Azeem for their guidance that was
head of piping department, Sir Hamad that was Commissioning head in
plant and Sir Saqib who used to tell me about different features related to
Mechanical that being installed in plant. Moreover, I would like to thanks
all the people I worked with at ARL and the other internees. It was very
good experience to work with all of them.

2 Company Background
2.1 History

Attock Refinery Limited (ARL) was incorporated as a Private Limited

Company in November, 1978 to take over the business of the Attock Oil
Company Limited (AOC) relating to refining of crude oil and supplying of
refined petroleum products. It was subsequently converted into a Public
Limited Company in June, 1979 and is listed on the three Stock
Exchanges of the country. The Company is also registered with Central
Depository Company of Pakistan Limited (CDC).
Original paid-up capital of the Company was 80 million which was
subscribed by the holding company i.e. AOC, Government of Pakistan,
investment companies and general public. The present paid-up capital
of the Company is 852.93 million.
Attock Refinery located at Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan was on the verge of
bankruptcy and collapse but was surviving on Government of Pakistan
subsidy. In mid-1997, Mr. Raziuddin was hired as CEO of Attock Refinery.
Within 6 months he stabilized the production and finances of ARL. But
Mr. Raziuddin along with his most trusted adviser Mohammad Ahmed
Jamal achieved commercial operation 35 days before the targeted date
and some 7% below budget. Raziuddin took the refinery from 18,700
barrels per day (bpd) to 45,000 bpd in less than 3 years. The profitability
increased tremendously. The loans were paid off earlier than schedule.
The profitability multiplied due to optimization of production dynamics
and maintenance and financial prudence. Through this cash generation
Attock Refinery was able to buy National Refinery Ltd. When
Government privatizes it and also put a 165 MW IPP Power plant to feed
the grid. Both these investments have brought tremendous profitability
to the Attock Group. It processes almost 70% of the local crude oil.
ARLs current Expansion/ Up-gradation Projects comprise of Preflash
Unit, Naphtha Isomerization unit, Diesel Hydro Desulphurization (DHDS)
Unit and expansion of existing Captive Power Plant. This would increase
refinery capacity by 10,400 bpd, motor gasoline production would
increase by 20,000 Tons per month and would enable ARL to produce
Euro II compliant low sulfur diesel. This would also result in expansion of
captive power plant by 18 Megawatt

2.2 Organization
2.2.1

Attock petroleum Limited

Attock Petroleum Limited (APL), sponsored by the Pharaoh Commercial

Investment Group Limited and Attock Oil Group of Companies, started
its operations in 1997. Main objective of APL was to establish a Group
Company in downstream petroleum sector for marketing of petroleum
products in Pakistan, which historically was restricted to three major
players in this field. APL has been able to effectively penetrate the
market in a short period of time by competing with well-established
OMCs. APL is the only OMC in Pakistan belonging to a Group involved in
Oil Exploration, Production and Refining thus ideally suited to
proficiently fulfilling its customers needs.

2.2.2

Attock Cement Pakistan Limited

Attock Cement Pakistan Limited (ACPL) was incorporated in Pakistan on

October 14, 1981 as a Public Limited Company and is listed on the
Karachi Stock Exchange. The company started its commercial
production on June 1, 1988. ACPLs current production capacity is
2,400 MTPD. Due to an overall surge in cement demand in the country
over the last couple of years coupled by growth in regional market,
ACPL has decided to increase its production capacity to 5,400 MTPD by
setting up a new plant with a capacity of 3,000 MTPD. The new plant is
scheduled to be completed and start trial production by January 2007.

2.2.3

Attock Gen Limited

Attock Group is dedicated in revolutionizing the way our world

addresses the ever increasing problem of energy shortage. By
investing in Attock Gen Limited (AGL), the Group became leader in
accepting the challenge of Power Policy 2002 offered by the
Government of Pakistan. The new cutting edge technology introduced
in Pakistan not only maximized the power capacity of the country but
also provided environmentally safe energy to the national grid. AGL
has 25 years business partnership with National Transmission and
Dispatch Company for dispatch of energy, backed by the guarantee of
Government of Pakistan.
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2.2.4

National Refinery Limited

The Attock Oil Group of Companies through the process of Privatization

has acquired 51% shareholding of National Refinery Limited, Karachi
with Management control and thus become the largest Group having
huge investment in Oil & Gas and Refining sector of Pakistan. National
Refinery Limited (NRL) was incorporated as a Public Limited Company at
Karachi in 1963. NRL is a petroleum refining and petrochemical complex
producing a wide range of fuels, lubes, BTX (petrochemicals), asphalts
and specialty products for domestic consumption and export. NRL has
crude oil processing capacity of 2,710,500 tons per annum (TPA), its
lube refineries have a designed production capacity of 176,200 TPA of
lube base oils (LBO) and its BTX unit has a designed production capacity
of 25,000 TPA. NRL enjoys a competitive edge as it is the only refinery
producing lube base oils in Pakistan.

2.3 Working Procedure

ARL is committed to provide the best quality products in the market,
endeavors to protect the environment and to ensure health and safety
of its employees, contractors, and customers and work for continual
improvements in Health, Safety, Environment and Quality (HSEQ)
systems.

Health: ARL seeks to conduct its activities in such a way as to

promote the health of, and avoid harm to its employees, contractors,
visitors and the community.

Safety: ARL ensures that every employee or contractor works under

the safest possible conditions. It is our firm belief that every effort must
be made to avoid accidents, injury to people, damage to property and
the environment. ARL believes that practically all accidents are preventable by carrying
out risk assessments, and reducing risks identified, by appropriate controls.

Environment: ARL is committed to prevent pollution by the efficient

use of energy throughout its operations, recycle and reuse of the
effluent wherever possible, and use of cost-effective cleaner production

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Quality: ARL conducts periodic audits and risk assessment of its

activities, processes and products for setting and reviewing its
objectives and targets to provide assurance, to improve HSEQ standards
and loss control. ARL is committed to share all pertinent information
related to HSEQ with all concerned parties.

2.4 Achievements
The Company is ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO/IEC 17025, OHSAS 18001
certified and is the first refinery in Pakistan to declare implementation of
ISO 50001 (Energy Management System).
Due to remarkable and outstanding sustainability reporting continuously
for the last five years, ARL has been honored a place in the judging
panel of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and
WWF. Further, the Company won the Best Sustainability Report Award
2010 of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) and
Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan (ICMAP). This
prestigious award is meant to recognize and reward those organizations
that report and disclose environmental, social and sustainability
performance.

Business Excellence Award 2013-14 Global Compact Network

Pakistan
Best Corporate Report Award 2013 - Certificate of Merit
Best Sustainability Report Award 2013 - 3rd Position

2.5 Products of Company

Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)

Solvent Oil
Naphtha
Premier Motor Gasoline (PMG)
Jet fuel
Kerosene Oil
High Speed Diesel (HSD)
Light Diesel Oil (LSO)
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Jute Batching Oil (JBO)

Furnace Fuel Oil (FFO)
Low Sulfur Fuel Oil (LSFO)
Residual Furnace Oil (RFO)

3 Departments and Projects

In my tenure of 6 weeks, I was attached with Mechanical department of
plant who used to inspect the plant on daily basis. Since the
construction of plant was completed, so we used to visit plant daily and
they used to tell us about the units that being installed in plant and all
the other mechanical equipments that were installed in those units.
Our area of concern was to check whether that equipments are
working properly so that they will be as good when plant would be in
working stage. I also worked with commissioning department in which
Engineers used to tell us about commissioning of plant which includes
hydro and pneumatic testing. Maintenance Department plays a very
significant and critical role in the refinery. It includes the plants
maintenance, power plant, electrical and instrumentation, offsite
maintenance and few times they referred it to workshop for maintenance.

4 Training Summary
I do my internship in Attock Refinery Limited (ARL). Arriving timing for
internees at ARL is 6:15 am and departure time is 12:15 pm. The
duration of my internship is six weeks (25 July, 2016 to 30 August,
2016). I get my joining letter on 25 July, 2016. On first day my
supervisor gives me a lecture on safety measure which I must be taken
during my internship. Form next day to onward they take us to units
one by one and tell its configuration. Main units that are installed on
plant are as follow:

Isomerization Unit
Reformer Unit
Naphtha Hydro treater Unit
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Crude Distillation Unit

Hydrogen Reformer
Howe Baker Unit (HBU)
Diesel Hydrodesulphurization Unit (DHDS)
Sulfur Recovery Unit (SFU)

These are the units that I visited the most in my tenure. There are
different chemical process carrying out in these units to enhance the
quality and quantity of Light Straight Run (LSR) naphtha. After the visit
they give us lecture on what we were told on site and then give us to
task to search by our own and they will ask about it later on at end of
day. There was presentation session after two or three days and we
used to tell about each and every thing that was discussed by
engineers or things that we have seen on site. We had two or three
hours on site in which we inspect the units and one by one with our
engineer and he tells us about the features installed on that unit and
what purpose they are used for.

5 Key Learning and Applicability

Being a part of Attock Refinery Limited I have learnt a lot. Before this
internship I didnt see the things physically. Although we have studied
those things in our course and we knew its theory well but we dont
know how actually it looks like and actually how it is operating/working.
In my tenure I tried to apply those concepts in filed and my supervisors
also help me in this because things are always be different on large
scale, but all the concepts are same. I never had visit of industry
before this so I dont even know whats in there and how actually
things are working on large scale.
In my tenure I have seen practical application of what I study in my
course. When we apply those concepts in field at large scale, although
we face some queries but end results are same. So I can say that its
applicable to what I study back in my courses.

6 How Internship has affected my Career Goals?

Before doing my internship I was quite confused about future field. I

found everything quite interesting, and I was changing goals one after
other. After this tenure I am been able to take decisions that what I
should do in my future or what I am capable of doing. Now I am quite
determined to select a field in which I want to proceed. And I want to
go for MS. After lot of hearing from supervisors and what engineers
were discussing their, I come to point that yes I should go for MS and I
develop my interest in it.

7 Comments
After this tenure of six week I can actually say this now yes Im quite
confirmed about my future goals. Before this it was stuck in my mind
that what actually these things are and how they deal with it. My
experience in the industries is very good; one thing I have learnt from
field work is that you must be very cooperative with your co-worker
and labor that are working in filed in order to get desired results from
them. Attock Refinery Limited is a very big institution of our country. It needs
modernization to improve its quality and increase production rate.

8 Problem faced and Solution

In every firm/company you faced lot of problems; you have to deal with
it. I wasnt able to apply my concepts in field because things are
always be different on large scale. With the help of my supervisor I am
been able to get over with it. It has given me real time experience of whatever I
have learnt during my engineering.

9 Summary

ARL internship program has offered me a great opportunity to grow

and develop. It has motivated me to be able to overcome challenges. I
have learnt extensively about Mechanical Engineering, the relevance of
Mechanical Engineering to real life problem. The program has
enhanced my analytical skills as well as improved my professional
ability to work in a global environment.

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