{"id":283716,"date":"2019-07-22T06:47:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T06:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=283716"},"modified":"2019-07-22T06:53:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T06:53:22","slug":"switch-to-clean-fuel-to-come-at-a-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/switch-to-clean-fuel-to-come-at-a-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch to clean fuel to come at a cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shift to Bharat Stage-VI emission norms from April next year is likely to raise fuel prices as state-owned oil firms look to recover the investments made to upgrade their refineries. <\/p>\n<p>Sources said the state-owned oil firms had written to the petroleum ministry seeking a mechanism to help them recover the cost of shifting to BS-VI, which is the equivalent of Euro-VI. <\/p>\n<p>At present, BS-IV compliant fuels are used. Last year, it was decided to migrate to the BS-VI level from April 2020, leapfrogging the BS-V norms. Under BS-VI norms, petrol and diesel should have sulphur content of 10 parts per million, down from 50 in the fuel currently in use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shift to Bharat Stage-VI emission norms from April next year is likely to raise fuel prices as state-owned oil firms look to recover the investments made to upgrade their refineries. Sources said the state-owned oil firms had written to the petroleum ministry seeking a mechanism to help them recover the cost of shifting to BS-VI, which is the equivalent of Euro-VI. At present, BS-IV compliant fuels are used. Last year, it was decided to migrate to the BS-VI level from April 2020, leapfrogging the BS-V norms. Under BS-VI norms, petrol and diesel should have sulphur content of 10 parts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}