ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Sunday saved unchanged the costs of two main petroleum merchandise — petrol and excessive velocity diesel — and barely elevated these of kerosene and lightweight diesel oil for the subsequent 16 days i.e. until Aug 31.
In accordance with a notification issued by finance ministry, the ex-depot value of petrol was saved unchanged at Rs119.80 per litre and that of excessive velocity diesel (HSD) at Rs116.53. Alternatively, the worth of kerosene was elevated by 81 paisa to Rs88.30 from Rs87.49 per litre and that of sunshine diesel oil (LDO) by Rs1.10 to Rs85.77 from Rs84.67 per litre.
Petrol and HSD are two main merchandise that generate most of income for the federal government due to their huge and but rising consumption within the nation. Common petrol gross sales are touching 750,000 tonnes per thirty days and people of HSD round 800,000 tonnes. Gross sales of kerosene and LDO are typically lower than 11,000 tonnes and a couple of,000 tonnes per thirty days, respectively.
Beneath a revised mechanism, oil costs are revised by the federal government on a fortnightly foundation to move on worldwide costs printed in Platt’s Oilgram as a substitute of earlier mechanism of month-to-month calculation on the idea of import value of Pakistan State Oil.
Printed in Daybreak, August 16th, 2021
