547.    ---------------.  [CHEMICAL TRADE JOURNAL AND CHEMICAL ENGINEER.]  Indian Coal-Oil Plans.  Vol. 126, 1950, p. 1435.

                  Indian Government has granted a license to B. Patnaik as sponsor for erection of a Fischer-Tropsch plant at Talcher in Orissa on the eastern seaboard.  Production is expected to begin some time in 1951.  The plant, coming from the French zone of Germany, will have an output of 10,000 metric tons/yr.  The Government has also contracted with Koppers Co., United States, to prepare plant designs for utilizing lower-grade Indian coals for synthetic-oil manufacture by hydrogenation.  The plant will have an output of 100,000 metric tons of products/yr. and will require a capital investment of 220,000,000 rupees (₤16.5 million).