Stocks of oil marketing companies (OMCs), including IOC, HPCL and BPCL, fell between 2.2% and 4.9% on Thursday, a day after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) agreed to cut production after a gap of eight years.

The BSE Oil and Gas index closed at 11,881.25, down 83.07 points or 0.69%, while the Sensex closed down 92.89 points, or 0.35%.

India’s fastest growing digital payments platform FreeCharge has announced that it has partnered with all the three Oil Marketing Companies in India and will soon be available at all petrol pumps of IOCL, BPCL and HPCL across the country. The list includes nearly 26,000 petrol pumps of IOCL, nearly 13,500 petrol pumps of HPCL and nearly 13,800 petrol pumps of BPCL.

State-run Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) has posted a net profit of Rs 701.32 crore for the second quarter of the financial year ended on September 30, compared to a net loss of Rs 317.13 crore for the corresponding period of the previous financial year.

"The increase in profit is due to higher domestic market sales and reduced inventory loss compared to the corresponding period last year. Inventory loss came down to Rs 359 crore this quarter compared to Rs 1,406 crore during the second quarter of the previous fiscal," said M K Surana, chairman and managing director of HPCL.

Shares of oil marketing companies (OMCs) such as Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) were trading higher in the early trade on Friday after they revised fuel prices. Petrol prices increased by 0.58 per litre while diesel prices decreased by Rs 0.31 per litre.

IOC shares advanced as much as 0.9 per cent in the early trade. At 9.35 am, the scrip was trading 0.60 per cent up at Rs 561.85.

Mumbai: State-run Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd (HPCL), one of the promoters of Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL), wants Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd (ONGC) to divest a part of its stake in the refinery so that it can meet minimum public shareholding norms, said two HPCL officials aware of the development.

At the end of June, HPCL held a 16.95% stake in MRPL, and ONGC, the other promoter, owned 71.6%. The public shareholding in MRPL was 11.42%, less than half the 25% prescribed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi).

India's third biggest crude oil refiner, Hindustan Petroleum Corp (HPCL), plans to expand its refining capacity to more than 60 million tonnes annually, or about 1.2 million barrels of oil per day by 2030, according to a senior company official.

This will not only help the company fill the yawning gap between the volume it refines and the volume it markets through its retail outlets, but also help in meeting the burgeoning fuel demand in the country, said HPCL Chairman Mukesh Kumar Surana at a conference late on Thursday.

Mumbai: To beat competition from its own peers and private players, state-run Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd (HPCL) has decided to experiment with dynamic fuel pricing at its fuel retail outlets, said two senior HPCL officials, on the condition of anonymity.

Currently, HPCL has launched dynamic pricing at a few of its retail outlets on a pilot basis, to be extended to other outlets across the country at a later stage.

State-owned refiner Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) and gas utility GAIL India Ltd will divest up to 50 per cent stake in the Rs 30,000 crore petrochemical plant which is being set up in Andhra Pradesh.

HPCL and GAIL are looking at setting up a 1 million tonnes Ethylene Derivatives plant, which will produce a wide range of petrochemical raw materials for the manufacture of detergents, paints and coatings, cosmetics, textiles and adhesives.

MUMBAI: Reserve Bank has allowed foreign investors to hike their stake in Hindustan Petroleum Corp to up to 40 per cent under portfolio investment scheme (PIS).

"Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs)/Registered Foreign Portfolios Investors (RFPIs) from default can now invest from existing 24 per cent up to 40 per cent of the paid up capital of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) under PIS," an RBI notification said today.

State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) may sell a part of their stake in Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) to comply with regulations on minimum public holding.

Public shareholding in the Mangalore-based refiner is currently just 11.42 per cent, not even half of the mandatory 25 per cent public float required by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for listed companies.

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