PESO grants permission to Indian Oil to set up hydrogen plant

Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) has received permission from Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organization (PESO), under Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, to set up hydrogen manufacturing and dispensing facilities in its R&D centre at Faridabad, Haryana.
 
This was informed by Nirmala Sitharaman, minister of state (independent charge) in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, in a written reply in Lok Sabha on May 8, 2015. She said PESO has issued a licence for dispensing of hydrogen-CNG blend as fuel to IOCL at their R&D Centre in Faridabad, Haryana for their own use for demonstration purpose; ‘in principal’ approval has also been issued for dispensing hydrogen to vehicles for demonstration and data acquisition purpose at the above centre.
 
In addition, PESO has issued licences to set up biogas based and coal bed methane based natural gas filling plants to encourage alternate fuels in the country, she added.
 
PESO has also issued 14 licenses and 7 approvals for filling and storage of compressed bio-gas in cylinders. Further, 7 licenses have also been issued for dispensing of coal bed methane based natural gas as a fuel in automotive vehicles.