The country will limit imports to gasoil with 500 parts-per-million (ppm) sulphur and no longer buy the 2,500 ppm grade, Reuters quoted two senior Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) officials as saying on Sunday. State-owned BPC, Bangladesh’s sole importer of gasoil, started importing cleaner gasoil this year. It has purchased 2,500 ppm gasoil only from Kuwait Petroleum Corp (KPC), the biggest supplier of gasoil to BPC at around 1 million tonnes a year. “From next year, we will not import gasoil with 2,500 ppm anymore from any oil company. Bangladesh imports around 3 to 3.3 million tonnes of gasoil a year while its only refinery, the Eastern Refinery produces around 350,000 tonnes, BPC officials said.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 21, 2016 06:20 UTC