Petroindustrial to test gasoline/ethanol fuel mix
Bnamericas Published: Friday, January 02, 2004
The Petroindustrial refining subsidiary of Ecuador's state oil company Petroecuador will start three days of tests on January 5 on a mixture of gasoline and ethanol derived from sugar cane to be used as automobile fuel, newspaper Expreso quoted Petroindustrial VP Pedro Almeida as saying. The new mixture will save the country almost US60mn in naphtha imports and reduce CO emissions by 30% and CO2 emissions by 6-10%, he said. Preliminary laboratory tests of the new fuel have been successful, he added.
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