Indian Oil Corporation, the country's largest refiner, on Monday reported a sharp 30 per cent drop in net profit for 2004-05 to Rs 4890 crore (Rs 48.9 billion) compared to Rs 7,005 crore (Rs 70.05 billion) in the previous fiscal.
'BPCL has always been spoken about as a multinational company though it is State-run... this sets our work culture also apart.'
According to sources, Russian energy giant Rosneft or its affiliates, Saudi Aramco and Reliance Industries are in race for BPCL's three refineries - Mumbai, Kochi in Kerala and Bina in Madhya Pradesh - 16,309 petrol pumps, 6,113 LPG distributor agencies and more than a fifth of 256 aviation fuel stations in the country.
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