IOC to set up green hydrogen network

Indian Oil Corp. (10C), the country’s largest oil-marketing company with over 37,500 petrol stations, is working ona new business plan to set up green hydrogen fuel dispensing pumps across the nation, chairman Arvinder Singh Sah-ney said in an interview.

- Rituraj Baruah

Sahney said that apart from captive consumption at its refineries, where IOC would look at replacing grey hydrogen with green hydrogen, the firm aims to eventually cater to the mobility demand in the nation, thereby retailing green hydrogen fuel cells.

He believes that due to critical safety requirements for hydrogen, separate and enhanced safety norms would be necessary for green hydrogen stations. This would require oil marketing companies (OMCs) to establish dedicated infrastructure for retail sales of the fuel.