State-owned Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) on Saturday said it has signed an agreement with Brazilian national oil company Petrobras for sourcing crude oil from the Latin American nation as part of plans to diversify its sourcing needs. BPCL imports a large volume of crude oil which is turned into fuel such as petrol and diesel at its three oil refineries at Mumbai, Bina in Madhya Pradesh and Kochi in Kerala. The firm, which gets majority of its supplies from west Asian nations such as Iraq and Saudi Arabia, is looking to diversify its sources of supply in an attempt to cut down reliance on any particular region. Company chairman and managing director Arun Kumar Singh and Petrobras CEO Caio Paes de Andrade signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Brazil, BPCL said in a statement. "The signing of the MoU will strengthen future crude oil trade relations between the two companies and explore potential crude import opportunities by BPCL, on a long term basis, especially .
The plan to offload the Centre's 52.98 percent stake in the oil major could not go forward as there was not sufficient number of bids
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The government currently owns a 52.98 per cent stake in BPCL. It had sought to sell its entire stake in the disinvestment process
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The government in May withdrew its offer to sell its entire 52.98% stake in BPCL, saying that majority of bidders have expressed their inability to participate in the current privatisation process
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Net loss of Rs 6,290.8 crore in April-June compared with Rs 3,192.58 crore in the same period a year back, the company said in a statement.
After a dip in market share, suppliers from the West Asian nation are discounting heavily to muscle out cheaper Russian oil
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ICICI Securities said the companies are losing Rs 12-14 per litre on petrol and diesel, completely offsetting the strong refining performance during the quarter
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