IOCL Mathura Refinery Starts 100 % BS-VI Fuels Production

The renovation of all the units of Indian Oil Corporation’s Mathura refinery completed in order to produce BS-VI grade fuels. This is in advance of the deadline for roll out of newer emission norms from April 2020, a company official said.

The project was undertaken by the refinery to upgrade its diesel and gasoline units for decreasing the sulphur level by nearly 80 per cent, said Mr Arvind Kumar, Mathura Refinery Executive Director.

He added, with the commissioning of these facilities, Mathura Refinery is now supplying 100 per cent of its MS (Petrol) and HSD (diesel), meeting BS-VI norms.

He also mentioned that IOCL Mathura Refinery became the first refinery in the country to offer BS-VI compliant fuels, having less than 10 ppm sulphur with existing units, well ahead of deadline set by the government.

He said, “At a time when all Indian Refineries were producing BS-IV compliant fuels, IOCL Mathura Refinery had gone ahead and was producing BS-VI compliant fuel since January 2018 with its existing units”.

Mathura Refinery has achieved the target well ahead of time when the deadline was set for rolling out cleaner (BS-VI compliant) fuel across the National Capital Territory (NCT) by April 18 and National capital region (NCR) by April 19, he noted.

He also disclosed that the refinery started the supply of BS-VI compliant fuels to NCT and NCR from January 2018.
Earlier, in January 2016, the government had decided to shift to BS-VI fuel emission norms from BS-IV from April 2020, skipping altogether BS-V norms.

According to the government direction, all the new vehicles to be sold after April 2020 would be BS-VI compliant.

Source: IBEF

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