Oil India Limited is a government enterprise focused on, as the name suggests, the drilling and extraction of crude oil.
Crude oil is a fossil fuel (it is a by product of the decay of plants and animals who lived on Earth millions of years ago. It takes many thousand years for fossils to convert into usable hydrocarbon. Hydrocarbon is then extracted as crude oil, processed, and used as petrol, diesel, ATF, etc).
Because it is a fossil fuel, it is a resource that will eventually run out. i.e., it is a non-renewable energy resource.
Green Hydrogen is a clean, renewable fuel.
Oil India today inaugurated its first 99.999% pure Green Hydrogen pilot plant, with an installed capacity of 10 kg per day. The plant is located in Jorhat, Assam, at an existing Oil India Facility.
The plant was made in a record time of just 3 months.
Shri Sushil Chandra Mishra, Chairman & Managing Director, inaugurated the plant in the presence of Shri Harish Madhav, Director (Finance), and Shri Prasanta Borkakoty, Resident Chief Executive of the company.
The plant produces Green Hydrogen from the electricity generated by the existing 500kW Solar plant using a 100 kW Anion Exchange Membrane (AEM) Electrolyser array.
The use of AEM technology is being used for the first time in India.
IIT Guwahati and Oil India Limited are already working on blending of Green Hydrogen with Natural Gas and its effect on the existing infrastructure of OIL. Later, the company will work on the commercial application of this blended fuel.