Articles tagged under: Indian Oil

Union minister visits India’s first Hydrogen Dispensing Station in Gujarat

September 21, 2023
Union minister visits India’s first Hydrogen Dispensing Station in Gujarat

Vadodara: Minister of State for Commerce & Industry Som Prakash and local LokS abha member Ranjanben Bhatt visited the first Hydrogen Dispensing Station of the country at the Gujarat refinery in Vadodara recently. Gujarat Refinery of Indian Oil Corporation established a Hydrogen Dispensing Unit last year. Petroleum and Explosive Safety Organisation (PESO) granted approval to the unit. The unit has a capacity of fueling 25 vehicles daily on an 8-hour basis with hydrogen. The fuel cell can al...Read More

IOC approves PVC Plant in Gujarat worth over Rs. 4000 crore: Reports

December 19, 2022
IOC approves PVC Plant in Gujarat worth over Rs. 4000 crore: Reports

Gandhinagar: Central public sector undertaking, Indian Oil Corporation has approved the investment proposal of more than ₹4000 Crore in Gujarat for a PVC (polyvinyl chloride) manufacturing facility. According to sources, the Corporation board approved the investment proposal recently, so that India can reduce its dependency on the import of resin which has huge demand in sectors such as Infrastructure, pipe making, cellphones and automobiles. With imports of more than 2 Million tons, Ind...Read More

Indian Oil’s 2G Ethanol Plant at Panipat Refinery to bring multiple benefits to the nation

October 20, 2022
Indian Oil’s 2G Ethanol Plant at Panipat Refinery to bring multiple benefits to the nation

By Japan K Pathak, New Delhi/Panipat: Petrol that you purchase from petrol pumps for your vehicle has 10 per cent portion of Ethanol mixed in it. This Ethanol is domestically produced and therefore the import bill on that much of petrol is saved for the country. The Government of India has plans to increase the proportion of Ethanol in petrol to 20 per cent by 2025. It will save 20 percent import bill on import of crude oil. While country is gearing up to achieve this target, it is also adopting...Read More

Indane Gas LPG cylinder booking number announced b IOC

November 02, 2020
Indane Gas LPG cylinder booking number announced b IOC

New Delhi: 7718955555 has been declared as a new booking phone number for Indane gas cyllinder refills across India, The Indian Oil Corporation ( IOC ) announcement reads. The number is available for the customers on round the clock basis through SMS and IVRS. Even when customers shift from one telecom circle to another across India, their Indane refill booking number remains same. The present system of telecom circle wise phone numbers for booking Indance cylinder refill has been discontinued o...Read More

Gujarat Refinery to invest over Rs 4000 crore on revamp to achieve BS VI norms

August 26, 2016
Gujarat Refinery to invest over Rs 4000 crore on revamp to achieve BS VI norms

Vadodara: Indian Oil owned Gujarat Refinery is investing Rs 1330 crore in two phases to make proper revamp of the diesel refining unit of the around five decade old refinery based in Vadodara and will start supply of BS- IV grade of diesel and petrol from January 2017, Executive Director of the refinery, S K Dhar Gupta today informed. For further upgrade of equipment and machinery to produce BS VI standard diesel and petrol from April 1, 2020, the Refinery will have to make additional es...Read More

IOC-owned Gujarat refinery to supply BS-IV compliant diesel from January

July 03, 2016
IOC-owned Gujarat refinery to supply BS-IV compliant diesel from January

Vadodara: Indian Oil Corp-owned Gujarat refinery will supply Bharat Stage(BS)-IV compliant diesel from January 2017, a senior official has said. "For producing BS-IV complaint fuel, IOC is spending Rs 1,800 crore towards revamping its three diesel treating and hydro-treating units at Gujarat Refinery. "The investment is part of quality upgradation exercise undertaken to meet emission standards set under the Central Government's auto fuel policy," IOC Executive Director S K Dhar Gupta told ...Read More