據印度報業托拉斯7月30日報道，印度石油公司(IOC)將與馬來西亞國家石油公司(Petronas)合作，在印度開展天然氣和運輸燃料零售業務。

　　印度石油公司和馬國油擁有一家合資企業IndianOil Petronas Private，雙方各持股50%，用于進口液化石油氣。Press Trust援引印度石油公司董事長Shrikant Madhav Vaidya的話稱，該合資企業將使天然氣和運輸燃料零售業務多元化。

　　印度石油公司擁有該國最大的石油銷售網絡。該公司還擁有向汽車銷售壓縮天然氣的許可證，以及向多個地區的家庭供應管道煤氣的許可證。

　　2020年，印度石油公司在德里啟動了一個氫壓縮天然氣（HCNG）試點項目。該公司將50輛CNG公交車改裝為HCNG公交車，并在減少尾氣排放和提高燃油經濟性方面顯示出顯著的效益。

　　今年6月，印度石油公司授予塔塔汽車公司15輛氫質子交換膜燃料電池公交車的投標。塔塔汽車公司除了向印度石油公司的研發中心提供公交車，還將與印度石油公司合作開展研發項目，進一步研究商用汽車燃料電池技術的潛力。

　　王佳晶 摘譯自 Natural Gas World

　　原文如下：

　　IOC and Petronas have a 50:50 joint venture, IndianOil Petronas Private.

　　State-run Indian Oil Corp (IOC) will partner with Malaysia's Petronas for natural gas and transportation fuel retailing business in India, Press Trust of India reported on July 30.

　　IOC and Petronas have a 50:50 joint venture, IndianOil Petronas Private, to import LPG. This joint venture will "diversify into natural gas and transportation fuel retailing business," Press Trust quoted IOC chairman Shrikant Madhav Vaidya as saying.

　　IOC owns the largest network of petrol pumps in the country. It also has licences to retail CNG to automobiles and piped cooking gas to households in several geographical areas.

　　Last year, IOC commissioned a hydrogen CNG (HCNG) pilot project in Delhi. The company converted 50 CNG buses to run on HCNG and has revealed significant benefits in reducing exhaust emissions and improving the fuel economy.

　　In June this year, IOC awarded Tata Motors a tender of 15 hydrogen-based proton exchange membrane fuel cell buses. In addition to supplying the buses to the Research & Development Centre of IOC, Tata Motors will also collaborate with them to undertake R&D projects and collectively study further the potential of fuel cell technology for commercial vehicles.