Soon state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) - Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation -would receive notices on alleged cartelisation, said Ashok Chawla, Chairman of the Competition Commission of India (CCI). Speaking on the sidelines of a conference, Chawla said. the CCI has taken up the issue after the government clari
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Moily stresses on fuel price hike
Union Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily underscored the need to raise prices of fuel in the domestic market given the huge payment for imports of crude oil into India. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the signing of a gas transmission agreement between GAIL (India) and Karn
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Moily stresses on fuel price hike
Union Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily underscored the need to raise prices of fuel in the domestic market given the huge payment for imports of crude oil into India. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the signing of a gas transmission agreement between GAIL (India) and Karn
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Ministry agrees to release Rs 250 bn to state-run OMCs
Government agreed to release Rs 25,000 crore as compensation to state-run oil marketing companies - Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum-for selling diesel, cooking gas (LPG) and kerosene at subsidised prices. The finance ministry gave a comfort letter to the OMCs intimating its plan to release the amount. How
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Ministry wants to cut subsidy bill by changing pricing formula
Union finance ministry wants the oil marketing companies (OMCs) to calculate under-recoveries from sale of fuel products based on export parity price rather than the presently followed import parity price. The ministry wants OMCs to discontinue import parity price because the 2.5 per cent customs duty was adding to the under-recoveries of the state-run oil marketing companies without contributing any revenue to th
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Govt gets request for payment of Rs 500 bn subsidy
Government received a written request from the state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) to pay Rs 25,000 crore for the first six months and Rs 25,000 crore for the third quarter of 2012-13. The compensation is towards the under-recovery incurred by the OMCs during the year for selling petroleum products below cost. So far, the companies have
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Minister hints at full de-regulation of diesel prices
Some media reports quoted Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily as saying that the government would allow oil marketing companies (OMCs) to charge market price for all consumers in another 24 months. It may be noted that recently, government allowed these firms to charge market price for only bulk cons
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Moodys’ expects credit metrics of OMCs to improve
In a recent research note, Moody's Investors Service said that it views the partial de-regulation of diesel prices as a positive step for BPCL and IOC towards recovering the Rs 9.6 per litre loss they incur on the sale of diesel. Moody's Investors Service, which is a division of ratings agency Moody's, expects the credit metrics of BPCL and IOC to improve as diesel prices
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OMCs sell 2.8% more fuel products in December 2012
Data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell of the oil ministry shows sale of fuel products grew 2.8 per cent to 13.41 million tonne in December from the year ago month. Of this, sale of diesel constituted 6.13 million tonne, which is 4.4 per cent higher than December 2011. Diesel consumption makes up over 40 per cent of local fuel sales. Sale of diesel in December improved over Nove
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OMCs raise diesel price by 45 paise
In an official statement, Indian Oil said state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) raised the price of diesel by 45 paise excluding taxes with immediate effect. It may be noted that the government allowed these firms to revise diesel prices in small quantities periodically to reflect market realities