IOCL starts home delivery of diesel

IOC starts fuel delivery service in Pune; to make it a pan-India service in future.

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) is making the fuel available at their doorstep. India’s largest fuel retailer is planning on a nationwide expansion of this service soon and may also consider delivering petrol at a later date.

Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had said, “Options are being explored where petrol products may be door delivered to consumers on pre-booking. This would help them avoid spending excessive time in long queues at fuel stations.”

However, IOC is not the first one to get into this venture, Last year, in June, ANB fuels had pioneered a diesel home-delivery service in Bengaluru using three vehicles for delivery. However, the company couldn’t continue with the service as the Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO) issued a circular to oil companies barring the supply of fuel to ANB, stating it as an unsafe practice.

IOC chairman and managing director, Sanjiv Singh, had said in August that the company preferred diesel as it’s more suitable and safer to be carried in the delivery mechanism. “Petrol has its own added risk. The three oil marketing companies have taken up the offer with PESO, which would be issuing the necessary licenses and permissions for this purpose, and we are also evaluating different modes of distribution. We should see something on this happening soon,” he had said.
 

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