State-run OMCs selling up to 5% blended diesel
New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- State-run refiners are selling up to 5% biodiesel blended diesel in certain retail outlets in the country depending on availability even as international fuel prices have zoomed because of the war in West Asia, forcing private pumps to raise petrol and diesel rates.
State-owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) are now supplying blended diesel in certain locations, an industry exec- utive said on condition of anonymity.
The percentage of biodiesel ranges between 0.5% and 5% (B5), this person added.
India's national policy on biofuel, released 2022, envisaged a target of 5% biodiesel blending in diesel by 2030. P10...
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