(Reuters) -- PetroChina plans to add 1.1 million tonnes of biofuels production capacity and import 470 KT of those fuels by 2015, a company official said on Thursday, as the oil firm aims to tap more alternative energy sources.
Of the planned production capacity, fuel ethanol will be 933 KTa and biodiesel will be 165 KTa, Fu Xingguo, deputy chief engineer of PetroChina's Petrochemical Research Institute, said at an industry conference.
The planned biofuel imports, which are likely from countries such as Brazil, will be blended with regular fuels and sold to southern Chinese provinces, he said.
Fu said some aviation biofuel the company produced will be used in a test flight next month. He did not give more details.
China has around 1.52 million tonnes of fuel ethanol capacity which mainly use grains as feedstocks, according to Fu.