USTDA Supports Refinery Modernization in India
September 3, 2015
(The Exporting Source)
Project Focuses on the Development of Cleaner Transportation Fuels
NEW DELHI, India – Today, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency awarded a grant
to the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), a state-owned refiner in
India. The grant funds a feasibility study that will recommend technologies to
improve yields at BPCL’s Mumbai refinery while also meeting increasingly
stringent quality and environmental standards for transportation fuels.
“This project builds upon USTDA’s long history of supporting India’s refining
sector by introducing new technologies to meet ever more rigorous standards,”
said USTDA Regional Director Henry Steingass, who signed the grant alongside
BPCL Director B.K. Datta. “It also demonstrates how our countries’ governments
are working together to enable the production of cleaner transportation fuels in
an economically viable manner.”
The study will review options for improving the processing of the “bottom of the
barrel,” or the heaviest portions of a barrel of crude oil, to develop higher
value transportation fuels. These fuels will meet new international standards
for sulfur oxides emitted from marine transport fuels. The recommendations may
also be utilized by other refineries in India.
The opportunity to conduct the USTDA-funded feasibility study will be competed
on the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website. A link to the FBO
announcement will be posted to USTDA’s website at www.ustda.gov. Interested U.S. firms should
submit proposals according to the instructions in the FBO announcement.
This grant agreement was signed in advance of the U.S.-India Energy Dialogue and
the U.S.-India Strategic and Commercial Dialogue, scheduled for September 21 and
22 in Washington, D.C., to follow through on commitments made by both countries
related to technical cooperation on transportation fuels.
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