Government Schemes

Recently, the Union Minister of crude oil and fossil fuel & Steel presidedover a virtual ceremony during which variety of initiatives were launched to produce majorfillip to the SATAT initiative.

·        A Cooperation Agreement was signed by Oil and Gas majors together with Indian Oil,HPCL, BPCL, GAIL and IGL, for the promotion and development of the SATAT.

·        The Cooperation agreement provides for establishing a powerful network formarketing the complete created quantity of CBG Plants through varied channels.

SATAT scheme

·        It was launched in 2018 by the Ministry of crude oil & natural gas in associationwith Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., bharat petroleum Corporation Ltd. and HindustanPetroleum Corporation Ltd.

·        It envisages targeting production of fifteen MMT of CBG from 5000 plants by 2023.

·        It aims to set up Compressed Bio-Gas production plants and create CBG accessible inthe marketplace for use as a green fuel.

Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG)

·        Bio-gas is made naturally (through a method of anaerobic decomposition) fromwaste / bio-mass sources like agriculture residue, cattle dung, sugarcane pressmud, municipal solid waste, sewage treatment plant waste, etc.

·        After purification, its compressed and known as CBG, that has high methanecontent.

·        It is exactly like the commercially accessible fossil fuel in its composition andenergy potential.

·        It will be used as an alternate, renewable automotive fuel with similar calorificvalue and alternative properties just like CNG.