In India, Autocar Professional reports that mini-compressed biogas plants are about to take off following the issuance of more than 500 Letters of Intent by the three main oil marketing companies to entrepreneurs under the Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation that seeks to produce 15 million metric tons annually of compressed biogas by 2023. Total […]
In India, the Economic Times reports that Indian Oil is teaming with a German company to upgrade its biogas production facility to bio-CNG in a 50/50 joint venture. The company currently uses the biogas for power generation but decided it would get more value by upgrading the biogas into transportation fuel. The $3.56 million investment […]
In India, the Press Trust of India reports that the state of Haryana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Indian Oil Corp. to build a 100,000 liter per day ethanol plant using rice straw as feedstock. The $124 million plant is hoped to provide a market for rice straw for local farmers to reduce […]
In India, the Business Standard newspaper reports that Indian Oil plans to invest $132.6 million in second-generation ethanol facility that will use crop waste, likely sugarcane, as feedstock in Uttar Pradesh. The project could end up being a joint venture between the oil company and the state’s sugar mills association. If the ethanol project doesn’t […]
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In India, the country’s biggest oil refiner Indian Oil plans to invest $2.4 billion in ramping up its ethanol production program. The company is looking to team with Celanese to build a 1 million metric ton per year of synthetic ethanol production capacity in the eastern town of Paradip. Petroleum coke will be the feedstock […]
In India, the Indian Oil Company is reviewing its commercial biofuel strategy in light of questionable results from jatropha investments but it will still go forward with current jatropha projects in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Uttar Pradesh. The company is in discussions with a US-based company for better seed while it is also looking at […]
In India, Indian Oil is working with Airbus, Kingfisher Airline and UOP to conduct biofuel test flights. Indian Oil, a state run corporation has signed pacts with Canadian universities and Pratt & Whitney to further their ambitions to join the growing group of countries pursuing bio-avjet.
