NEW DELHI: Indian trucking will drive into the gas age with 50 LNG (liquefied natural gas) filling stations along the Golden Quadrilateral, setting the stage for a green makeover of the smoke-spewing long-haul goods transport fleet.
\nThe number of LNG stations will be expanded to 1,000 in three years to make the clean-burning fuel accessible, oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Wednesday after unveiling the foundations of these stations to be built by state-run fuel retailers.
\nThis will make the Indian transport sector the latest entrant — after a handful of nations led by the US and China — to the LNG covenant. For the world\u2019s third-largest oil consumer, where the transport sector guzzles 40% of diesel sold, the environmental benefit from LNG is immense: there is no sulphur dioxide emission and nitrogenous emissions are reduced by 85%.
\n\u201cEven if the LNG vehicle segment achieves 10% market share, it will have a positive impact on reducing emissions and substituting crude. LNG as a heavy vehicle fuel can also generate new gas demand, which will be significant in increasing the share of natural gas to 15% (from 6% at present) in our energy mix,\u201d Pradhan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Indian trucking will drive into the gas age with 50 LNG (liquefied natural gas) filling stations along the Golden Quadrilateral, setting the stage for a green makeover of the smoke-spewing long-haul goods transport fleet. The number of LNG stations will be expanded to 1,000 in three years to make the clean-burning fuel accessible, oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Wednesday after unveiling the foundations of these stations to be built by state-run fuel retailers. This will make the Indian transport sector the latest entrant — after a handful of nations led by the US and China — to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385640","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}