BPCL is India's sixth-largest company by turnover.
The Indian basket crude oil touched $47.41 a barrel on November 26 as against average crude oil prices of $41 a barrel in the first fortnight of November this year
BPCL has around 73 million LPG consumers, while Indian Oil has 134 million and HPCL around 78 million
Marketing margins to support earnings, while refining outlook can improve with vaccine launches driving global economic recovery
Unlike Air India, the winning bidder for BPCL can easily bank on this revenue churner to recover the cost of acquisition
Analysts highlight the doubts over Vedanta's ability to raise finances for such acquisition
According to multiple sources, major players like Reliance Industries, Saudi Aramco, Rosneft and Exxon Mobil had shied away from the bidding process
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The government is selling its entire 52.98 per cent stake in BPCL and last date of putting EoI was November 16
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In the past one month, stock of the state-owned oil marketing company outperformed the market by surging 27 per cent as compared to a 10 per cent gain in the S&P BSE Sensex till Saturday
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Given the uncertain demand scenario, the investors are weighing if BPCL acquisition makes sense
The Centre has received a "sufficient and good response", according to sources
The country's second largest oil marketing firm Bharat Petroleum has upgraded its bunkering facility with five jetties that can now pump the oil into ships from the pipelines at the Marine Oil Terminal on the Butcher Island, off the east coast of the city. BPCL is the largest supplier of bunkering oil with around 60 per cent of the volume at JNPT, Mumbai Port and the two other harbours nearby the city consuming around 400thousand metric tonne(tmt) annually. And the sell-off bound national oil marketer expects to double its annual sales to 14 tmt from 7 tmt now after the updrade and complete mechanisaiton of the oil filling facilities now, S Jena, executive director, industrial & commercial at BPCL told PTI. On average, as many as 5,000 vessels berth at Mumbai, JNPT and the adjoining Digi and Dharamtarports annually, creating a bunkering business of close to 400tmt of VLSFO. The upgraded facility on the Jawahar Dweep, earlier known as the Butcher Island, will be used bunkering very
BPCL wanted to install a residue fluid catalytic cracker at the Mumbai refinery and connect the plant with a new site where it wanted to build an ethylene cracker
Privatisation-bound Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) on Thursday reported 58 per cent jump in September quarter net profit on the back of inventory gains and a rise in refining margin