Pakistan’s crude oil imports rise 12% to 2.78 million tonnes in first quarter of FY27

Oil-sector figures show crude arrivals reached 2,780,176 tonnes in July-September FY27, around 12% above the 2.48 million tonnes recorded in the same quarter a year earlier. Monthly volumes climbed from 763,702 tonnes in July to 1.238 million tonnes in August, before dropping to 778,964 tonnes in September. Industry sources told Profit that refiners built inventories and prepared for expected demand amid uncertainty about Middle Eastern supplies.

Of the quarter’s crude shipments, 2,168,681 tonnes came through Keamari and 611,495 tonnes via the Single Point Mooring facility. Imports included 1.275 million tonnes of 92 RON petrol, while high-speed diesel receipts were 83,497 tonnes; 95 RON petrol arrivals totalled 14,997 tonnes. Pakistan sent abroad 307,368 tonnes of furnace oil and 22,282 tonnes of naphtha, with high-sulphur furnace oil making up 246,417 tonnes of the furnace-oil exports.