Indian refiner Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd plans to buy its first ever cargo of crude oil from the United States, a tender document showed on Monday.

BPCL is seeking at least 1 million barrels of crude either for loading on Aug. 16-Sept.5 or delivery on Sept. 26-Oct. 15, it said.

Mumbai: Oil prices are at a seven-month low of $45.17, having fallen 20.5% since January 2017 following rising crude production in the US, Libya and Nigeria.

Although this is not a cause for worry in the short term for Indian oil marketing companies (OMCs) Indian Oil Corp. Ltd (IOCL), Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd (HPCL), falling crude prices over an extended period could hurt.

Almost a week after the big-bang announcement by Reliance Industries (RIL) and BP Plc to invest Rs 40,000 crore in the Krishna Godavari Basin field, a senior BP official said that the company has withdrawn its arbitration with the government related to gas prices.

This has triggered expectations that the government could now allow the oil majors to charge a higher price for gas from KG-D6. While the price for domestic natural gas for the period of April 1 to September 30 has been kept at $2.50 per million metric British thermal unit (mmbtu), for deepwater blocks, a higher price of $5.56 per mmbtu is allowed. However, RIL and its partners were denied this price due to arbitration.

The Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) on Saturday terminated the license of Bihar Health Minister Tej Pratap Yadav's petrol pump after he failed to furnish a satisfactory explanation to the notice issued over the allocation of the property in the state.

The BPCL declined to further comment on the issue.

On May 31, the BPCL issued notice to Tej Pratap seeking an explanation on the petrol pump license.

Daily revision of petrol, diesel rates: Petrol and diesel prices will be changed on a daily basis. Starting today, the move by state-owned oil companies will mark a departure from the earlier practice of fortnightly revisions of rates, according to reports. Rates will change everyday depending on any movement in international oil rates. Yesterday, petrol price was reduced cut by Rs 1.12 per litre and diesel price was cut by Rs 1.24 per litre. Till now, prices were used to be revised on 1st and 16th of every month based on the fortnightly average of international oil price and the foreign exchange rate, the report says.

State-owned oil firms IOC, BPCL and HPCL on Wednesday signed an agreement to jointly set up India's biggest refinery at Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra at a cost of $30 billion or Rs two lakh crore.

Indian Oil Corp (IOC) will be the lead partner with 50 per cent stake while Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) and Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) will take 25 per cent stake each.

State-run oil refiners plan to invest Rs20,000 crore by 2020 to meet rising demand for cooking gas, two officials from the companies said.

The investments by Indian Oil Corp. Ltd (IOCL), Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd (HPCL) will go into setting up terminals to import liquified petroleum gas (LPG), laying pipelines, and building LPG bottling plants.

Come May 1, petrol and diesel prices will change every day in sync with international rates, much like what happens in most advanced markets.

State-owned fuel retailers Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corp (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corp (HPCL), which own over 95 per cent of nearly 58,000 petrol pumps in the country, will launch a pilot for daily price revision in five select cities from May 1 and gradually extend it to all over the country.

Thanks to aggressive acquisition of oil assets abroad, government-owned BPCL and ONGC are set to overtake Reliance Industries in overseas fundraising in 2016-17. Reliance was the topper among corporate India in raising funds during the past five years.

The change in the league tables comes against a backdrop of a slowdown in fundraising by Indian corporates during the year. Overseas fundraising by Indian companies slowed to $19.02 billion in 2016-17 from $21.06 billion in 2015-16.

Mumbai: Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s India unit and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd (BPCL), the country’s second largest fuel retailer, may team up to help the latter set up an energy trading unit in Singapore, two officials aware of the development said.

A Singapore office has been in the works for BPCL to expand its global reach and participate in trading of crude oil, natural gas and energy derivatives, the two said on condition of anonymity.

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