Around an year after the above comment, an update to note that National Refinery is indeed supplying Euro-V diesel since 1st Jan 2021. As it is mentioned in the article above:

“[…]diesel standards were uplifted in January 2021. Most of the oil refineries however, are still in process of upgrading the plant to produce higher quality fuel[…]” and also mentioned in the above comment https://carspiritpk.com/euro-2-in-pakistan-a-decade/#comment-9495

on 1st Jan 2021, not only the imported diesel was Euro-V, the locally produced diesel from at least one refinery was also upgraded to Euro-V. News sources:

https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/212100-NRLs-349mln-upgradation-projects-start-operations (this article’s editing is so pathetic it keeps mentioning Euro-II even when it Euro-V)
https://mettisglobal.news/nrl-starts-to-supply-hsd-compliant-with-euro-v-specifications-from-dhds-up-gradation-plants/
http://www.nrlpak.com/News.aspx (Official news page shows “Production and Supply of Euro-V High Speed Diesel (HSD) Effective January 01, 2021 NRL has started to supply HSD compliant with Euro-V specifications, as provided by the Ministry of Energy (Petroleum Division), from its DHDS upgradation plants which were commissioned in June 2017.”)http://www.nrlpak.com/FuelProducts.aspx In the fuel products list, the diesel is detailed mentioned “EURO V grade High Speed Diesel Oil (HSD)”

As well as in the annual reports published on PSX https://dps.psx.com.pk/company/NRL. Apparently the government has imposed a penalty on producing diesel anything lower than Euro-V standard, and NRL is saving money because they don’t have to pay the penalty whereas other refineries have to.

In this comment https://carspiritpk.com/byd-faw-chery-joins-price-war-in-chinese-car-market/#comment-13643 there is this linked article dated 07th Jan 2021 https://tribune.com.pk/story/2278973/automakers-may-suffer-due-to-euro-5-switch and it mentions that “Only one petroleum oil refinery out of the total five in Pakistan has so far upgraded to Euro-5 technology. Remaining four are still producing Euro-2 diesel.”

Now the question arises about above comment that if NRL is already giving Euro-V diesel then what is meant by: “National refinery is also “considering” https://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights/en/market-insights/latest-news/oil/120121-refinery-news-roundup-news-emerges-on-closures-in-asia-pacific the details are on the same page.” So if they already began Euro-V production on 01st Jan 2021, what is the meaning of this news in Dec 2021?

So the info for us is that refineries install a unit called DHDS to produce Euro-V compatible diesel, whereas another kind of plant called CCR is used for producing Euro 5 compliant petrol. And NRL is now thinking of installing CCR unit which is the news! So out of the 5 local refineries (Byco, Attock, Pakistan, National and Parco), only one is producing Euro-V compatible diesel but this factory is only partially Euro 5 compliant, since the petrol it is producing is still Euro 2!

Despite the fact that converting petrol to Euro 5 had a 5 months early date (1st Aug 2021), none of them has begun selling Euro 5 petrol. And 4 of them still can’t produce Euro V diesel. So the compliance check only gets 1/10 marks for the oil refineries.

Another question is how many litres of diesel consumed everyday, and how many of them are imported Euro-V, and how many of them are NRL-supplied Euro-V?

https://carspiritpk.com/wp-content/uploads/Transport-in-Pakistan-1200×675.jpg.webp

You see where this picture ended up in March 17, 2023:-

https://www.pakwheels.com/blog/local-fares-raised-by-10/

Imagine how far has this photo traveled in exactly 365 days from Mar 18, 2022 to Mar 17, 2023!

“Unlike CHINESE JF17s, you can tell that these Good Old MiG 19s are actually reliable and strong because you can see them displayed in parks and streets, I haven’t seen a single JF17 like this” 🤣🤣🤣

https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/5/62101_1601898579.jpg

thank God this guy is not in defence ministry otherwise he would say old Mig19 is way better than CHINESE JF17 Thunder. May Allah increase MiG19’s capability even more. Good Old MiG 🙂

If such upgrades are available for commercial vehicles, Imagine what benefits it can bring to the table if our government introduces it for local commercial vehicles as a subsidized option…🤔

And our desi japani assemblers are having trouble importing euro 5 engines…🤦‍♂️

Bhaiiii this guy is out of this world. Yahan baat kia horaha hai aur ye kia bol raha hai… 🤦‍♂️😂

Now the question is; why does it take THAT long? It certainly did not take that long for us to adopt Euro 2 from Euro Zero, back in 2012. What is even going on with these petroleum companies?? 🤨

They will still need a year or two even in that case just so they can sell out whatever Euro 2 engines they had stockpiled so far. 🙃

To upgrade to Euro6, aftermarket retrofits can be availed in other countries:- https://www.excalibretech.com/2020/09/07/how-to-upgrade-to-euro-vi/

Which means that it is not such a difficult and impossible job.