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Is India ready for CTL fuels? (editorial) [1]

Faced with high oil prices and increasing oil imports to meet the country's rising demand for transportation fuels, there is now a perception that India's energy security is threatened. In addition to securing overseas oil fields, alternative options include biomass-based fuels and coal-to-liquid (CTL) fuels. While the production of biodiesel has now become a national mission, CTL fuels are also gaining currency as a commercially attractive proposition because of the potentially cleaner characteristics.

Publication Date: 
12/02/2008
Financial Express [2]
Tags:
Alternative Fuels [3], Energy Technology [4], India [5], Oil India [6], Coal India [7]
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