{"id":119084,"date":"2026-07-26T22:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=119084"},"modified":"2026-07-26T22:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:56:07","slug":"petrol-pumps-to-be-monitored-in-real-time-under-new-ogra-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/petrol-pumps-to-be-monitored-in-real-time-under-new-ogra-system\/","title":{"rendered":"OGRA introduces real-time digital monitoring system for petrol pumps nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-govt-announces-paid-internship-program\/\">OGRA<\/a>) has decided to introduce mandatory real-time digital monitoring at petrol pumps across Pakistan as part of its efforts to digitize the country&#8217;s petroleum supply chain and enhance transparency.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new system, every petrol pump will be required to use two OGRA-approved smartphones equipped with a dedicated mobile application to transmit real-time data on fuel receipts, sales, and available stock to regulators.<\/p>\n<p>As per media reports, the implementation of the system will be done by the Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) at retail outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Petrol pump dealers, however, complained that they were made to buy the prescribed smartphones via OMCs and at the price of about Rs72,000 per device.<\/p>\n<p>Dealers say that about 25,000 to 26,000 smartphones have already been issued to them. This means that the value of devices sold is somewhere between Rs800 million and Rs900 million.<\/p>\n<p>The legality of the deductions was also questioned. They demand to see the documents on how procurement was done and other financial information.<\/p>\n<p>The digital monitoring project is a part of OGRA\u2019s Track &amp; Trace system, which would monitor the movement of petroleum products from the import terminals and refineries to oil depots, tank lorries, and retail fuel stations.<\/p>\n<p>It will make use of GPS tracking systems, ERP systems, dashboards, and mobile applications to track the live inventories and movements of the fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The move will help in reducing fuel hoarding, smuggling, diversion of petroleum products, and stock management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) has decided to introduce mandatory real-time digital monitoring at petrol pumps across Pakistan as part of its efforts to digitize the country&#8217;s petroleum supply chain and enhance transparency. Under the new system, every petrol pump will be required to use two OGRA-approved smartphones equipped with a dedicated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":119085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1029,19388,43956],"class_list":["post-119084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-ogra","tag-petrol-pumps","tag-real-time-digital-monitoring-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119084","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119086,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119084\/revisions\/119086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}