In India, Indian Express reported that India’s largest refiner and fuel retailer Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) expects to start producing sustainable aviation fuel on commercial scale at its Panipat refinery by December.
By the end of this year, IOC will have the capacity to produce 35,000 tons per year of SAF from used cooking oil, which will be sourced from large hotel chains, restaurants, and sweets and snacks majors like Haldiram’s, which normally discard cooking oil after single use.
“The capacity will be sufficient to meet the country’s 1% SAF blending requirement for international flights by 2027…for feedstock, we will be engaging aggregators to collect UCO from big hotel chains and restaurants. There is a large amount of such oil available in the country. The only challenge is collection. While it is easy to collect from large hotel chains, a solution needs to be found for collection from small users, including households,” said the firm’s chairman Arvinder Singh Sahney.
IOC recently became the first company in India to receive the ISCC CORSIA certification for SAF production at its Panipat refinery in Haryana.
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