Indian Oil Corp Ltd said its third-quarter profit nearly doubled, handily beating estimates.

Net profit surged 97 percent to Rs 78.83 billion ($1.24 billion) in the quarter ended December 31, from Rs 39.95 billion a year earlier.

NEW DELHI: At nine on Tuesday night, residents of Suraj Vihar near Dwarka heard a loud blast that shook the buildings around. When police reached the site of the explosion, they noticed an 8-ft deep ditch. On further examination, the cops realised that it was part of a tunnel leading to a pipeline of the Indian Oil Corporation from where a group was pilfering petrol.

Excessive gas pressure had led to the blast. The cops arrested the kingpin of the racket, Zubair, a scrap dealer from Daryaganj. The other men managed to escape under cover of darkness.

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) was up 4% to Rs 399 on BSE in intra-day trade on Tuesday after the company announced the board may consider issue of bonus shares in its forthcoming meeting on January 30, 2018.

This is further to our letter dated 17th January, 2018 notifying that a board meeting of the Company is scheduled on Tuesday, the 30th January, 2018, to consider and approve the unaudited financial results of the company for the third quarter ended 31st December, 2017.

NEW DELHI: Indian Oil Corp, the nation's largest refiner and fossil fuel retailer, in in talks with Bangladesh and Myanmar to enhance trade of petroleum products and offer its expertise to set up oil infrastructure in the two countries.

This month, Indian Oil will open offices in Bangladesh and Myanmar, with a plan to closely pursue business opportunities in the two countries. "For the neighbouring countries, we are not only looking for business, we are looking for association beyond business.

State-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) Indian Oil Corp, Bharat Petroleum Corp, and Hindustan Petroleum Corp are looking for a solution to the high card transaction fees for petrol and diesel purchases.

OMCs want banks to cut the card transaction fees on petrol and diesel purchases by half, Livemint reported while citing four people aware of the development.

NEW DELHI: A consortium of Indian state-run oil and gas hunters led by ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) appears set to drop anchor in Israeli waters for the first time amid New Delhi's growing closeness with Tel Aviv and a widening chasm with Iran over its recalcitrance in awarding the Farzad-B gas field discovered by the same Indian grouping.

New Delhi: Indian Oil and Bharat Petroleum Corp (BPCL) are both keen to acquire gas utility GAIL India to become fully integrated energy companies.

IOC and BPCL have separately indicated to the petroleum ministry their interest in taking over GAIL to help add natural gas transportation and marketing business to their kitty, official sources said. GAIL, on the other hand, feels a merger with oil and gas producer ONGC would be more appropriate.

The tussle between auto fuel dealers and the government over minimum wages for over one million petrol pump staff has intensified with the dealers getting stay orders from Ernakulam and Jammu high courts among others.

On August 4, the government made it mandatory for retail outlets to pay Central minimum wages to retail outlet attendants.

To increase their chances in the latest tender floated by state-run Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) for hiring of tankers, domestic shipping companies are asking for an easing of the vessel-age criteria.

Early this month, separate tenders were floated by two state-owned oil refiner-marketer companies, IOC and Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPC). They want to hire a VLCC (very large crude oil carrier) and a Suezmax tanker, respectively, for a contract period of five years.

New Delhi: The country’s largest refiner Indian Oil Corp. Ltd is making a strategic shift to a less carbon-intensive future by getting into clean energy and related infrastructure, while keeping refinery expansion plans flexible for course correction, said chairman Sanjiv Singh in an interview.

What is pushing the state-run refiner to new markets is the rise of renewable energy sources in the country’s energy mix, which cuts down diesel use for power generation, and a possible adoption of electric vehicles by consumers in future.

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