IOC seeks up to 24 million barrels of US crude to diversify imports

NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE: Indian Oil Corp (IOC), the country’s top refiner, is seeking to buy up to 24 million barrels of US oil for delivery between October 2020 and March 2021, tender documents showed, as part of its efforts to diversify supply. The move will help IOC to hedge against unpredictable pricing moves by Middle East…

BPCL stake sale to attract oil majors looking to head out of China

A top executive at a PSU Refiner (under Public Offering) said that the thriving negative outlook on China could mean India getting good investments from Oil Majors preparing to head out of China. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited’s Finance Director N. Vijayagopal said, “The choices of investing in the oil sector will be limited when the…

SC agrees to hear plea by Oil ministry against recovery of $499 mn by Vedanta

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the petition seeking stay on Delhi High court order allowing the enforcement of the arbitrations award allowing Vedanta Ltd. and Videocon Industries Ltd. to recover $499 million instead of $198 million capped by the government for development of Ravva oil and gas fields in the state of…

Oman Oil not to raise stake in BPCL’s Bina refinery

MUMBAI: Oman Oil Company will not increase its stake in the Bharat Oman Refineries Ltd (BORL), a joint venture between state-run Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) and the Oman company, according to two officials from BORL. “Oman has not shown interest and thus we converted our warrants into shares. This has increased our stake in…

Oil surges 5 per cent in 6th straight weekly gain on US job data, OPEC+ meet

Both US and UK crude rallied on Friday following a flabbergasting US employment data that revealed the US economy had added 2.5 million jobs in May, leading to a decline of unemployment rate to 13.3 per cent from a record 14.7 per cent a month earlier and insanely beating an analysts’ estimate of a drop…

Mediterranean Oil Tensions Are Boiling Over

Under pressure in Libya–where it’s gone head-to-head with General Haftar in an ongoing battle to decide who gets to ultimately control the country’s oil revenues–and floundering in Syria, Turkey is once again upping the ante in the Mediterranean, this time preparing to issue new oil and gas exploration licenses in direct confrontation with the European…

OPEC, Russia meet to extend record oil cuts, push for compliance

OPEC, Russia and their allies hold talks on Saturday on extending record oil production cuts that have doubled oil prices since April and will push countries such as Iraq and Nigeria to deliver better compliance with the curbs. Nigeria’s oil minister said he expected an extension deal, which already has the backing of Russia and…