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Maruti Suzuki India on Monday said it has collaborated with Indian Oil Corporation to establish vehicle service facilities at several of its fuel retail outlets across the country. Customers can get routine maintenance, minor repairs, and even major services at these facilities, making car care easier and more accessible, the auto major said in a statement. The initiative will further strengthen the company's service network, which already spans over 5,780 service touchpoints across 2,882 cities in India, it added. "By partnering with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, one of India's most trusted Maharatna enterprises, we will leverage their unmatched reach to take our after-sales service to locations frequently visited by our customers," Maruti Suzuki India Executive Officer (Service) Ram Suresh Akella said. The collaboration marks a significant step to bring mobility and energy sector together and deliver superior customer care experience, he added. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) ..
The Public Works Department (PWD) is planning to partner with Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) to garner support for its CSR initiative 'adopt a flyover' project, sources said on Friday. Under the initiative, private firms can adopt public infrastructure, taking responsibility for its maintenance, beautification, and cleanliness, in return for limited advertising rights on the adopted structures. In July this year, a decision was taken in a high-level meeting chaired by PWD Minister Parvesh Verma to prepare large infrastructure proposals that align with the public-private partnership (PPP) framework and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative. The shift in policy comes amid concerns over delays and cost overruns in previous public infrastructure projects due to funding limitations. One of those projects is the 'adopt a flyover' project, based on the PPP model for cleanliness and better care of road infrastructure, officials added. According to officials, a meeting was held ...
Cooking oil is often discarded after being used for frying at home or in restaurants. However, a refinery of IndianOil has now won a certification to use the same oil to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), the company chairman Arvinder Singh Sahney said. SAF is an alternative fuel made from non-petroleum feedstocks that reduces emissions from air transportation. It can be blended up to 50 per cent in conventional aviation turbine fuel (ATF or jet fuel), depending on availability. India has mandated 1 per cent SAF blending in jet fuel sold to international airlines from 2027. IndianOil's Panipat refinery in Haryana has won the International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) ISCC CORSIA certification (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification - ISCC - developed under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) to produce SAF from used cooking oil, he said. "We are the only company in the country to get this certification," he ...
State-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has finalised the levelized cost of hydrogen (LCoH) for setting up a 10,000 tonnes per annum green hydrogen generation unit at its Panipat refinery and petrochemical complex in Haryana, advancing India's clean energy ambitions. "This marks IOC's entry into the green hydrogen space with India's largest-ever green hydrogen project to date," the firm said in a statement. IOC, however, did not give costing and other financial details. "Slated for commissioning by December 2027, the green hydrogen produced will replace fossil-derived hydrogen in refinery operations, resulting in substantial reduction in carbon emissions," it said. Hydrogen is a fuel that finds vast applications across industries ranging from oil refineries to steel plants and can power cars, trucks, trains, ships, and even industrial processes. It can be produced from a variety of sources. Green hydrogen is hydrogen gas produced by splitting water using renewable energy sources