On 10 August 2015 the Union Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas has announced Marketing of High Speed Diesel blended with Bio-diesel in selected retail outlets of OMC’s in New Delhi & Vishakhapatnam, Haldia and Vijayawada.
It is a path breaking step in India’s retail sector for launching Bio-diesel B-5 blend to diesel consumers.
Sale of fuel was announced on the occasion of World Bio-Fuel Day by the Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas, The Petroleum & Natural Gas minister Dharmendra Pradhan at HPCL’s retail outlet in Delhi.Petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan has also launched the sale of Bio-Diesel blended HSD in other cities through the live streaming from New-Delhi.
The ministry had permitted direct sale of Bio-Diesel (B100) to bulk consumers like Railways, shipping and State Road Transport Corporations etc. This was permitted as part of promotion of Ethanol Blended Petrol program in the country, where in ethanol blending in petrol is planned to increase from 5 to 10 percent based on the availability of ethanol.
The Union Ministry announced marketing of Bio-Fuel-Blended HSD
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