HC Deb 19 December 1967 vol 756 cc362-3W
84.Mr. Ronald Atkins

asked the Minister of Power whether he is satisfied that Great Britain has the technological capabilities for building and operating a plant like that to be built by British Petroleum at Lavera refinery near Marseilles to produce protein from gas oil, details of which have been sent to him; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Freeson:

Yes. British Petroleum, inventors of this process for producing protein from gas oil, have the technological capacity to build and operate a plant of nature in Britain or indeed in any part of thse world where an oil refinery is established. The first full-scale plant is being built in France because B.P.'s French Company made the original invention and has carried out the early laboratory experiments and development work.

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