Attock Oil Company, informally called Attock Group, also known as the Pharaon Group, is a UK-domiciled

conglomerate company A conglomerate () is a type of multi-industry company that consists of several different and unrelated business entities that operate in various industries. A conglomerate usually has a parent company that owns and controls many subsidiaries, ...

based in

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. It is the sole vertically integrated oil conglomerate company active in

Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...

i market. The group is owned by the Pharaon family.

History

Attock Oil Company Limited (AOC) was incorporated in

on 1 December 1913, and extended into Pakistan as a branch office of a foreign company for the principal business of exploration, drilling and production of petroleum products. AOC met its first oil discovery in 1915 at Khaur,

Attock District Attock District ( Punjabi/Urdu), known as Campbellpur District during British Raj, is a district, located on the Pothohar Plateau, in north western Punjab, Pakistan; created in April 1904. According to 2023 Pakistani census population of Att ...

. Thereafter, AOC made significant contributions in promoting oil and gas exploration in the country by opening up the Potohar Basin as a new oil province. The Potohar Basin remained the only oil producing basin in Pakistan till the early 1970s. Although the company was established by British entrepreneurs, control was purchased by Saudi investor Ghaith Pharaon in the 1970s. Pharaon's family still own the company. In 2004, Attock invested in Pakistan. It included: petroleum pipeline from Machike,

Lahore Lahore ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, second-largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and ...

to Taru Jabba,

Peshawar Peshawar is the capital and List of cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population, largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district p ...

, and a 150 MW power plant in

Rawalpindi District Rawalpindi District (Punjabi language, Punjabi and ) is a Districts of Pakistan, district located in the northernmost part of the Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab province of Pakistan. Parts of the district form part of the Islamabad Rawalpindi metropo ...

Subsidiaries

The Attock Oil Company consists of the following companies:

Listed

* Pakistan Oilfields Limited * Attock Refinery Limited * National Refinery Limited * Attock Petroleum Limited * Attock Cement

Unlisted

* Attock Gen. LimitedAttock Gen. Limited.
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References

External links

The Attock Oil Company Limited
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