Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) has rallied 10% to Rs 1,233, also its record high on the BSE in intra-day trade after the company announced that the board has recommended issue of bonus shares in the ratio of two for every one held.

“The board of directors of the company at its meeting held on July 20, 2016, have recommended capitalisation of reserves and issue of fully paid bonus shares in the ratio of 2 (two) bonus equity share of Rs 10 each for every 1 (one) existing equity share of Rs 10 each,” HPCL said in a regulatory filing.

Shares of oil marketing companies (OMCs) are on a roll with all three listed firms – Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) – closing at their respective lifetime highs on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on Tuesday. These stocks closed higher between 3%-5%, as compared to 0.15% rise in the S&P BSE Sensex today.

In its analyst meet on Friday, Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) management raised its standalone capex guidance significantly to `534 billion over FY17-21 vs. `310 billion over FY16-20 earlier.

Majority of the capex increase appears to be in the marketing segment which management attributed to new LPG bottling plants, lube blending plants and product pipelines.

In its analyst meet on Friday, HPCL management raised its standalone capex guidance significantly to R53,400 crore over FY17-21 vs R31,000 crore over FY16-20 earlier.

Majority of the capex increase appears to be in the marketing segment which management attributed to new LPG bottling plants, lube blending plants and product pipelines.

Mumbai: Indian Oil Corp. Ltd (IOCL), Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd (HPCL) may jointly hold a 51% stake in a large refinery and petrochemical complex proposed to come up in coastal Maharashtra, two people familiar with the development said.

The state government and a strategic investor who is yet to be brought in will hold the rest.

Shares of state-owned oil marketing companies such has Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) were trading higher between 2%-5% on the bourses as oil prices dropped on Monday, extending Friday’s sharp decline after Britain's vote to leave the European Union.

“Brent crude futures were down 15 cents at $48.26 a barrel by 0238 GMT on Monday, after settling down $2.50, or 4.9 percent, at $48.41 on Friday,” the Reuters report suggests.

State-owned IOC, BPCL and HPCL have struck a temporary deal with Reliance Industries and Essar Oil to resume buying petrol and diesel from private refiners on revised terms.

Short of own production, state refiners Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Hindustan Petroleum Corp (HPCL) and Bharat Petroleum Corp (BPCL) buy about 12 million tonnes of diesel annually from Jamnagar refineries of RIL and the Vadinar unit of Essar.

After the strong Q3, we had expected Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL)’s Q4 to be stronger. HPCL reported stronger than our expectations and beat our earnings estimates for both refining and marketing. Q4 EBITDA of `25.9 billion (+19% q-o-q) was 10% ahead of our estimate. Refining GRM was $7.5/bbl, vs our estimate of 5.8/bbl. The discount to Singapore complex margin remains very low at -$0.3/bbl (-$0.1/bbl in Q3).

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL)'s performance for the quarter ended March, like that of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), was impressive and much ahead of estimates.

HPCL' profit at Rs 1,553 crore declined 28.2 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y), but beat Bloomberg consensus estimate of Rs 1,087 crore by 43 per cent. The topping of the estimate was led by better-than-expected operating performance. Ebitda at Rs 2,643 crore was substantially higher than Rs 2,378-crore Bloomberg consensus estimate.

MUMBAI: Hindustan Petroleum Corp plans to invest around $3.8 billion to ramp up its refining capacity by two-thirds this decade, as the country's oil demand soars and to meet cleaner fuel standards, a company official told Reuters.

Fuel demand in India - the world's third-biggest oil consumer - is rising at its fastest clip in more than a decade, buoyed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's manufacturing push and as an expanding middle class buys more cars.

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