(India TV)
Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan today said that the central government was mulling over allowing the use of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as a transportation fuel.Pradhan said that the government had an ambitious plan in this regard and it may issue a notification in this regard very soon.
“In India, we have an ambitious plan to use LNG as a transportation fuel, very soon we are going to notify,” Dharmendra Pradhan said in Houston on Monday.The Union minister is presently on a visit in the US along with a delegation comprising the CEOs of Public Sector Oil and Gas companies to attend the CERAWeek 2017, an international meeting of top leaders from the oil, energy and natural gas industry.Pradhan is scheduled to meet Petroleum Ministers from Canada, UAE, Israel, USA, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Russia as well as Secretary General of International Energy Agency (IEA) during his US visit.
