据世界石油2022年8月25日报道，印度最大炼油企业——印度石油公司表示，计划在2046年花费2万亿卢比 （合250亿美元） 实现碳中和。
国有炼油厂兼燃料零售商的董事长Shrikant Madhav Vaidya周四表示，该公司将在其净零目标下将排放范围1和2作为目标。Vaidya说，它计划通过减排实现目标的60%，其余的通过抵消，包括通过购买碳信用额度。
印度石油没有共享范围3排放的数据，这些数据来自其燃料的消耗，占炼油厂排放量的最大份额。范围1指生产过程中产生的温室气体排放，范围2指能源消耗产生的排放。范围3指价值链中的所有其他间接排放。
“运输部门燃烧化石燃料约占印度碳排放的13%，构成了所有炼油厂3的排放范围，” bloombergNEF的印度研究负责人尚塔努·贾斯瓦尔表示，“虽然今天的宣布是一个好的开始，但要实现整个国家的净零，印度需要减少这些排放。”
Vaidya在向股东宣布目标后在新德里告诉记者，其炼油厂和石化部门的总排放量将于2030年开始下降。印度国有能源巨头一直在制定计划，转向低碳运营，并计划投资氢和清洁能源。
Vaidya说，印度石油将花费57.7亿卢比用于绿色产品和燃料电池的研究。他说，炼油厂已经开始通过气化生物质来生产氢气，并预计到今年年底将建立一个日产能一吨的试验工厂。
炼油厂的脱碳计划符合印度到2070年达到零的国家目标。世界第三大排放国去年年底在格拉斯哥宣布了第26届缔约方会议的目标，刺激了一系列鼓励经济脱碳的政策变化。
印度能源部门正在考虑对绿色氢和清洁能源的投资，尽管汽油需求预计将在多年内保持强劲，但全国各地也安装了数千个电动汽车充电站。印度石油早些时候曾表示，它正努力在2030年每年生产70000吨绿氢。
寿琳玲 编译自 世界石油
原文如下：
Indian Oil Corp. to spend $25 billion to cut emissions
Indian Oil Corp., the country’s biggest refiner, said it plans to spend 2 trillion rupees ($25 billion) to achieve carbon neutrality in its operations by 2046.
The company will target Scope 1 and 2 emissions under its net zero aim, Shrikant Madhav Vaidya, chairman of the state-owned refiner-cum-fuel retailer, said on Thursday. It plans to achieve 60% of the goal through mitigation and the rest via offsets, including through the purchase of carbon credits, Vaidya said.
Indian Oil did not share data on Scope 3 emissions, which occur from the consumption of its fuels and comprise the largest share of emissions for refiners.
Scope 1 refers to greenhouse gas emissions generated during production and Scope 2 to emissions from the consumption of energy. Scope 3 refers to all other indirect emissions in the value chain.
“The burning of fossil fuels by the transport sector is responsible for roughly 13% of India’s carbon emissions, and constitutes the Scope 3 emission for all oil refiners,” said Shantanu Jaiswal, BloombergNEF’s head of India research. “And while today’s announcement is a good start, to achieve net zero for the entire country India will need to reduce these very emissions.”
Overall emissions at its refineries and petrochemical units will start falling after 2030, Vaidya told reporters in New Delhi after he had announced the goal to shareholders. Indian state-run energy majors have been working on plans to switch to low-carbon operations with investments planned in hydrogen and clean power.
Indian Oil will spend 5.77 billion rupees on research on green products and fuel cells, Vaidya said. The refiner has started working on hydrogen production by gasifying biomass and expects to have a trial plant with a capacity of one ton a day ready by the end of the year, he said.
The refiner’s decarbonization plan is in line with India’s national goal of reaching net zero by 2070. The world’s third-largest emitter announced the target at COP26 at Glasgow late last year, spurring a series of policy changes to encourage decarbonization of the economy.
The Indian energy sector is looking at investments in green hydrogen and clean power, while thousands of electric vehicle charging points are also being installed across the country even as gasoline demand is expected to remain robust for many years. Indian Oil had earlier said it is working toward producing 70,000 tons a year of green hydrogen by 2030.
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