Petroleum Minister Inaugurates IndianOil’s Biomethanation Plant

Faridabad, September 18, 2019: Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel, Government of India inaugurated IndianOil’s 5MTPD Biomethanation plant in the presence Vipul Goel, Minister of Industries, Commerce, Environment and Industrial Training, Haryana Government, Sanjiv Singh, Chairman, IndianOil, Dr. SSV Ramakumar, Director (R&D), at Faridabad on September 15, 2019. Dr. G Anupama, Divisional Commissioner, Manmohan Garg, Sr. Deputy Mayor and Suman Bala, Mayor and other senior officials of IndianOil R&D were also present on the occasion.

Minister jointly with other dignitaries flagged off the first vehicle loaded with compressed Biogas, produced by the Biomethanation plant, for free supply to ISCKON for cooking mid-day meals for schools in Faridabad.

The Minister interacted with the media and shared about the Biomethanation technology. “This technology is in line with the dream of Prime Minister to make ‘waste to wealth’. Appreciating the R&D developed design and microbial technology, he observed that this will give a fillip for the speedy implementation of SATAT scheme and also help gain IndianOil a leading business edge in this domain.”

Highly impressed by a solar cooking system (Solar Chulha) co-developed at IndianOil R&D Centre, of which the pilot study has already begun recently at Leh, the minister advised to make it more attractive and cost-effective, to provide energy justice to all.