Countdown to Cleaner Emissions
New Delhi   06-Jul-2016

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An almost arbitrary decision to leapfrog fuel standards has managed to disrupt two large industries - oil and auto manufacturing. It's good news for environment, but for companies it means a huge drain on resources. Director (Refineries), IndianOil, Mr. Sanjiv Singh spoke to Fortune India regarding IndianOil's shift from BS IV to BS VI. The excerpts from the article are as follows:

"Such a quantum jump (from BS-IV to BS-VI compliant auto fuels) within a span of three years is being attempted perhaps for the first time by any country in the world.....”

"We will either revamp the existing units or add new ones. To make these additions while running a refinery is a challenge." The issue: installing it in a time-bound manner, without impacting refinery operations, so that there is no disruption in supply.

To meet the April 2020 deadline, IndianOil will have to start cleaning operations a few months before. "We will have to flush all our petrol pumps across the country. And by April 1, 2020, all the pumps will have BS VI fuels and other products, "

"We are in the process of technology selection, which I think we should be doing very soon. It will be both Indian and global companies. We are also utilising our own technologies which our R&D has developed for diesel hydro-treatment. We are installing two units from in-house technology for the first time."

Work on BS VI , including construction, will start full steam before March 2017.

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