Taken from the Star, dateline 2009-09-11
TWO weeks ago, PETRONAS announced that it was upgrading the diesel it was selling at its pumps to Euro 2M environment standard as part of its efforts to help protect the environment.
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The Euro 2M standard permits only a maximum of 500ppm of sulphur in the fuel, a huge improvement over the previous standard, which capped sulphur content at 3,000ppm.
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To make matters even worse, we are at least two generations behind immediate neighbours Singapore and Thailand where Euro 4 diesel is widely available.
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Two years later (2004), then Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Azmi Khalid announced that the Government was no longer satisfied with Euro 2 but wanted Euro 4 fuel to be made available this year.
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In the words of a senior Petronas official: “This means that our Euro 2M diesel was seven years late in coming.”
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Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 