New Delhi: Indian Oil Corp. Ltd (IOC) is considering buying Venezuelan crude for the first time in at least six years, in a move that could help the crisis-struck South American nation settle unpaid bills with another state-owned Indian energy firm.

Venezuela’s economy has collapsed since crude prices plummeted in 2014, forcing it to delay payments for oil services and fuel supplies. Venezuela depends on oil for more than 90% of its export revenues.

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the country’s largest oil refiner and retailer, has shifted its focus to have more than 50% market share of the electric vehicle charging and infrastructure space as the country moves to convert its passenger and commercial vehicles to electric by 2030. The PSU oil marketer is the first oil company to start a pilot project for charging of electric vehicles at its fuel station. The initiative, in partnership with Ola Cabs, in Nagpur will serve the cab aggregator’s electric vehicle fleet. IOC aims to meet the electrical energy requirements of vehicles from its entire 26,500 retail outlets in future. Murali Srinivasan, executive director at Indian Oil, told FE if the country has to achieve the 100% electric vehicles target by 2030, it would be inconceivable without including oil and gas retail outlets as the source for setting up charging facilities.

India’s state oil refiners are planning an aggressive push into natural gas in coming years to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s goal of making the fuel a bigger part of the country’s energy mix.

State-owned oil companies - Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum - are planning to raise gas contributions to between 5 and 15 per cent of their incomes over the next few years, up from nearly none now, company executives said.

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd (IOCL) is planing to sell bonds worth Rs700 crore to part-finance the construction of its upcoming natural gas terminal at Ennore in Chennai, two people familiar with the development said.

The country’s largest oil marketing company is building the Rs5,000-odd-crore terminal for import, storage and regasification of liquified natural gas (LNG) at Ennore’s Kamarajar Port.

The country's state-owned refiners are exporting low-sulphur diesel in a seldom seen flow of products as crude processing capacity returns amid a drop in demand due to a new sales tax and as regional flooding cuts fuel use, industry sources told Reuters.

The exports are expected to continue until year-end, likely weighing on low-sulphur cash differentials, the sources said, which have already dropped by half from a post-hurricane spike above $2 on US import demand.

State-owned Indian Oil Corp(IOC) has been given green nod for augmenting its Koyali-Sanganer pipeline (KSPL) capacity up to 6 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) from existing 4.6 MTPA at a cost of Rs 273.23 crore, a senior government official said today.

The company's proposal is to expand KSPL, which traverses from Koyali in Gujarat to Sanganer in Rajasthan, by augmenting the capacity of pumping stations located at Vadodara, Pali and other allied facilities.

New Delhi: Fuel retailers Indian Oil Corp. Ltd., Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. are expanding their network of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) dealerships by appointing more than 6000 new distributors, the oil ministry said on Friday.

This will mainly be in rural areas and in addition to the locations for which selection has already been made and the process of commissioning distributorship is underway, the ministry said in a statement.

State-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) on Friday reported its September quarter net profit at Rs 3,696 crore with 18 per cent rise on the back of higher fuel sales. The company said in the BSE filing that September quarter revenue from operations increased 10 per cent and was at Rs 1.11 lakh crore versus Rs 1 lakh crore last year.

The average gross refining margin was at $6.08 per barrel for the April-Sept period.

CHENNAI: With GST resulting in a 10% decline in MRP prices for lubricants, Indian Oil Corp might see its lubricant division post $1.1 billion in revenues, almost the same that it earned in 2016-17. While demand continues to climb from auto OEMs, the PSU faced a slump from construction, cement and steel sectors. "But since August, we have been seeing demand go up as infrastructure growth is spurred on the back of the PM's affordable housing programme," says K L Murthy, ED, Lubes.

Arun Kumar Singh, executive director, retail, BPCL, told FE, that they expect the safety clearance to come in next one month and the online retailing to start by December-end.

Inspired by the online and e-commerce boom in the country, oil marketing companies — Indian Oil, HPCL and BPCL — are planning to start online retailing of diesel to cater to the rural customers and commercial establishments helping them save time and improve their productivity.

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