The IndianOil organised a road show on used cooking oil (UCO) based Bio-diesel here on Tuesday.
Joint Secretary, MoPNG, Rohit Mathur graced the occasion as chief guest. CGM, Indian Oil, Odisha State, Subhajit Ghosh welcomed the guests and dignitaries like S Patke, ED (Bio fuel) BPCL, Shantanu Gupta, CGM (AE & SD), IOCL.
Out of 200 cities, in State of Odisha five cities have been identified i.e. Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Puri, Rourkela and Brahmapur, for supply of bio-diesel. So far three EOIs have been floated, against which IOC has received 10 offers from entrepreneurs for producing biodiesel from UCO with cumulative capacity of 432 tons per day. As on date, LOIs to 6 plants has been issued for supplying 292 tons per day biodiesel to IOC. To encourage the prospective entrepreneurs, IOC is organizing seven road shows across India till June, informed a release.
Around 250 entrepreneurs, delegates, students and transporters attended the road show.