{"id":109103,"date":"2026-04-22T18:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=109103"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:45:21","slug":"islamabad-peshawar-likely-to-face-fuel-shortage-in-coming-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/uncategorized\/islamabad-peshawar-likely-to-face-fuel-shortage-in-coming-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamabad, Peshawar likely to face fuel shortage in coming days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Attock Refinery Limited (ARL) has temporarily shut down its main crude distillation unit, HBU-I, which has a capacity to process 32400 barrels of crude oil each day, because road closures in Islamabad are hindering its operations during the arrival of foreign delegates.<\/p>\n<p>The refinery announced through a Pakistan Stock Exchange (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/rupee-gains-slightly-against-dollar-as-psx-closes-higher\/\">PSX<\/a>) disclosure that &#8220;oil tank lorry movement to and from ARL has been stopped because foreign delegates are expected to arrive in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>The refinery operations have been disrupted because the current situation prevents the refinery from receiving crude oil and dispatching products.&#8221; The company reported that oil transport suspension resulted in higher stock levels of Motor Spirit (MS) and High-Speed Diesel (HSD) while crude oil receipts experienced a steep decline.<\/p>\n<p>ARL confirmed that the primary crude distillation unit will remain out of service until the present traffic restrictions show improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts reported that Islamabad and Peshawar will experience fuel shortages because one of Pakistan&#8217;s main refineries has stopped operations until road restrictions are resolved, although the plant&#8217;s problems are mostly caused by logistical challenges instead of technical difficulties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Attock Refinery Limited (ARL) has temporarily shut down its main crude distillation unit, HBU-I, which has a capacity to process 32400 barrels of crude oil each day, because road closures in Islamabad are hindering its operations during the arrival of foreign delegates. The refinery announced through a Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) disclosure that &#8220;oil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":104871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37369],"class_list":["post-109103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fuel-shortage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109104,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109103\/revisions\/109104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}