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SOUTH ASIA on crude imports as well as in achieving Government of India.” He further added “The
other national objectives. “Petroleum and Government is committed to bring in a clean
IndianOil, NDMC sign MOU Natural gas Ministry is committed to establish energy future whilst reducing the adverse
impact on the environment. Innovative supply
more such plants in Delhi for a sustainable
on integrated waste project future. The signing of this MoU is in line solutions like LNG by trucks will play a
with Hon’ble Prime minister Shri Narendra
pivotal role in the development of gas markets
Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IndianOil) Modi’s vision of carving a greener and energy- across the country including hinterlands. This
and North Delhi Municipal Corporation efficient future for India and also towards infrastructure will also help support in the
(NDMC) today signed a Memorandum of achieving self-reliance in energy by adopting development of LNG as a clean transportation
Understanding (MOU) for development innovative green solutions.” fuel.”
of integrated waste-to-energy facilities at The integrated plant will process approx. Nakul Raheja, who has recently taken over
NDMC’s landfill site at Ranikhera in Narela, 2500 million tonne of municipal solid waste as Country Head, Shell Energy India stated
New Delhi. The MoU was signed in the collected by NDMC, recycle plastics and “In early 2019, we acquired additional 26%
presence of Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, produce compressed bio-gas CBG, ethanol, equity in the Hazira Terminal and created
Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas, syngas and other value-added downstream a fully-owned and integrated Shell value
Shri Anil Baijal, Lt. Governor of Delhi, Shri products. chain - supply from our global LNG portfolio,
Jai Prakash, Mayor, North Delhi Municipal INDIANOIL, January 19, 2021 regasification at the Hazira facility, and
Corporation, Shri Tarun Kapoor, Secretary, downstream customer sales. This development
Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shri Gyanesh PRADHAN inaugurates Shell extends our downstream customer offering
Bharti, Commissioner, North Delhi Municipal and now, in addition to supply of R-LNG via
Corporation and Shri S M Vaidya, Chairman, India’s LNG truck loading pipeline, we can also supply LNG by trucks
Indian Oil. to customers across India. I look forward to
As part of the MoU, IndianOil shall unit this segment advancing in the years ahead and
facilitate NDMC for identification of hope to also see LNG developing as a cleaner
a concessionaire for setting up of an Minister for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Steel energy option for heavy duty transport in
Integrated Waste to Energy Plant at Shri Dharmendra Pradhan today virtually India.”
Ranikhera in Narela. The plant would inaugurated Shell Energy India’s first small- Shell Energy India owns and operates a 5
process Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) scale LNG supply infrastructure, a truck mtpa LNG import terminal at Hazira (Surat),
and organic waste of NDMC for loading unit at its LNG terminal in Hazira. Gujarat. The terminal has been in operation
producing Compressed Biogas (CBG), This will now augment Shell’s natural gas since 2005 and received more than 600 LNG
recycling plastics, Refuse Derived Fuel supply offerings in India to include supply of cargoes till date.
(RDF) for producing plastic or syngas LNG via trucks. SHELL INDIA, January 19, 2021
and its downstream products. plastics Speaking on the occasion, Minister
recycling, etc. Pradhan complimented Shell for their efforts
Speaking on the occasion, Shri Pradhan in expanding the LNG infrastructure in the SOUTHEAST ASIA
said that Commissioning of this landmark country. He said, “Clean, affordable and
project will also help in generating energy in reliable energy is the need of the growing Pertamina launches VLCC
various forms and in reducing dependence population and a key priority for the
To ensure the stock and smooth supply
of Pertamina refinery crude oil to meet
national fuel needs, Pertamina Group
through subholding Shipping PT Pertamina
International Shipping launched a new
VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier) vessel
with a capacity of 2.04 million barrels. The
giant ship, named “PERTAMINA PRIME”
and was built in 2018, was launched by float
for the first time to sea water on Tuesday,
January 19, 2021, in Kumamoto, Japan and
is scheduled to handover on March 30,
2021.
Iman Rachman, serving as Director of
Strategy, Portfolio and Business Development
of PT Pertamina (Persero), said that the
presence of the VLCC vessel was not only a
matter of pride for Pertamina, but also a pride
for Indonesia because it had a strong fleet with
extraordinary performance.
President Director of PT Pertamina
International Shipping (PIS) Erry Widiastono
said that as a subsidiary of Pertamina, which
was established on 23 December 2016
with the main business sector of shipping

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