Completing Pakistan's White Oil Pipeline Backbone: Promise and Risks of MTT-WOP

Bilal Aftab
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Bilal Aftab: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

No 2026:159, PIDE Knowledge Brief from Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

Abstract: Key Takeaways: The Machike-Thallian-Taru Jabba White Oil Pipeline (MTT-WOP) is the unaddressed strategic gap in Pakistan's south-to-north petroleum corridor. In lieu of its absence, the northern regions will be heavily reliant on a unstable and inefficient road tanker network, leading to a series of supply shocks and high logistics costs that would last much longer than they should. Joint utilization of MS and HSD in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces (around 11 million MT per year) already crosses the upper bound of the pipeline's initial capacity. More so, the project's viability is reliant on precise demand projections and is currently at the risk of a 4 million MT supply-demand gap opening up, which requires a clear plan, whether expansionary or through other sources.

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Date: 2026
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