The price of petrol was hiked to Rs 101.39 a litre in Delhi from Rs 101.19 and to Rs 107.47 per litre in Mumbai, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers. Diesel rates went to Rs 89.57 a litre in Delhi and Rs 97.21 in Mumbai.
Mittal is in talks to take 20 per cent stake in state-run Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd's Rs 9,100 crore (Rs 91 billion), six million tons a year Bina refinery that is to be commissioned by 2010-11, industry sources said.
Sarthak Behuria on Tuesday took over as the chairman of Indian Oil Corp, the country's largest oil refining and marketing company.
The government has asked Supreme Court not to stay the privatisation of public sector oil majors -- Hindustan Petroleun Corporation and Bharat Petroleum Corporation
Army XI, Bangalore, and South Central Railway, Secunderabad, entered the quarterfinals of the Bombay Gold Cup Hockey
Eight renowned Indian and global merchant bankers will vie with each other on Friday to become the global advisors for privatisation of Bharat Petroleum Corporation.\n\n\n\n
Sameer Dad's goal gave Indian Airlines a 1-0 victory over Bharat Petroleum in the final.
BPCL beat Air India 4-1 in the final of the Bombay Hockey Gold Cup tournament.
State-run gas utility GAIL India and state refiner Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd have floated a joint venture company to supply piped natural gas for domestic and commercial use
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd is looking at 600 to 800 strategic sites across the country for its retail outlets expansion, a top official of the company said on Wednesday.
Vedanta group chairman, Anil Agarwal, 69, is well known for his business journey from a scrap dealer from Bihar to a London-based globe-girdling metal and oil and gas conglomerate with revenues of $19 billion. Now his abilities to keep his group from over-leveraging itself will be put to the test. Over the years, Agarwal, now based in London, set up the conglomerate via acquiring iron ore producer Sesa Goa, Cairn's oil producing assets in India, and Electrosteel Steel.
Oil refining companies, to a large extent, benefited from high gross refining margins during FY04 as a result of firm product prices in international markets
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd, the second largest oil marketing company in India, on Wednesday said it would be pumping in Rs 450 crore (Rs 4.5 billion) for retail expansion during this fiscal.\n\n
The banned cricketer will play for his employers Bharat Petroleum Corporation in the 24th PSPB inter-unit cricket tournament.
As many as 52 Indian companies raised money from external sources in October, of which $719.52 million was raised through automatic route for which no approval is required from the Reserve Bank of India or the government.
The victory gave Indian Airlines a place in the semi-finals of the Shastri hockey tournament.
IDBI Bank and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd have inked a business-2-business e-commerce tie up aimed at customers of the latter's Rs 8,000 crore (Rs 80 billion) industrial and commercial strategic business unit.
In a bid to boost its revenue in the LPG segment, public sector Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd will soon launch more value-added products such as domestic water heaters and mini generators powered by gas.
Reliance Industries Ltd, India's largest private sector oil firm, has seen a 70 per cent drop in its diesel sales in July on pricing the fuel higher than public sector firms to cut losses.
Petronet LNG Ltd will sell India's first liquefied natural gas from January next at around $3.6 per million BTU (British Thermal Unit), almost the same price as that of the private domestic natural gas producers.
Indian Airlines beat Bharat Petroleum while Indian Oil beat Air India in the Super League stage of the Maharaja Ranjit Singh hockey tournament.
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd will import 1.4 million barrels (0.2 million tonnes) of Iraqi Basra Light crude oil during September-December.
The resignation also signals a continuing saga of unaddressed concerns of young leaders, once considered close to former Congress president Rahul Gandhi.
Goals by Sabu Varkey and Hari Prasad gave Bharat Petroleum a 2-1 victory in the semi-final league of the Bombay Gold Cup hockey tournament.
Army XI, Bangalore, and holders Western Railway reached the semi-finals of the 44th Bombay Gold Cup Hockey
The government is likely to sell 20 per cent of its equity in Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd in the overseas market while another 15 per cent stake would be offloaded in the domestic markets.
The Union government may dilute its share in Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd to 26 per cent, an issue which goes to the Cabinet Committee on Divestment, company's director (marketing) S Radhakrishnan said.
Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd, which is expanding its Mumbai refinery to 12 million tonnes, will invest another Rs 1200 crore (Rs 12 billion) to produce auto fuel compliant with Euro-IV emission norms.