After Indian Oil Corp. (IOC), state-owned Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd (HPCL) has launched home-delivery of diesel in Mumbai and has plans to expand it to other parts of the country.
‘HP Fuel Connect’ will “deliver diesel to select customers having fixed equipment, heavy machinery in their premises in surrounding areas of Uran, Raigad in Maharashtra,” a HPCL press statement said.
IOC had in March 2018 launched home-delivery of diesel in Pune. Like IOC, HPCL too has mounted a diesel dispenser, similar to the one seen at petrol pumps, on a mid-sized truck along with a storage tank for delivering the fuel at customers doorsteps in Pune.
Initially, the company is targeting ‘static customers’ like shopping malls and commercial establishments that use diesel in gensets for producing electricity, and transport companies with large diesel consumption. “This facility will immensely help those customers who were hitherto taking diesel in barrels from petrol pumps,” the statement said
India currently has 61,983 petrol pumps with state-owned firms operating 90% of them.
India consumed 194.6 million tonnes of fuel in 2016-17, nearly 40% of which was diesel.
Diesel consumption in 2016-17 was 76 million tonnes, while petrol was 23.8 million tonnes.
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