Oil stocks tank up to 8% after cut in petrol, diesel prices; HPCL, BPCL, IOCL, GAIL, ONGC lead fall
OMCs have slashed petrol and diesel prices across the country by ₹2 per litre for the first time in two years since April 2022.
OMCs have slashed petrol and diesel prices across the country by ₹2 per litre for the first time in two years since April 2022.
It may be noted that the WPI based inflation in May 2023 contracted 3.48% year-on-year compared with 0.92% contraction in April 2023.
State-run oil marketing companies have booked a combined loss of ₹27,276 crore in the first six months of the ongoing financial year, says Union minister Hardeep Puri.
OPEC Plus – a grouping of 23 oil-rich countries -- is meeting in Vienna on Wednesday to discuss a major production cut for the first time since March 2020.
States like Maharashtra, West Bengal, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Jharkhand didn't reduce VAT on petrol and diesel in November last year.
State-run oil marketing companies in India have yet to hike retail prices of petrol and diesel.
The petrol and diesel prices have not been revised since the central government reduced the excise duty on the two fuels in November 2021.
Reliance Industries (RIL), Indian Oil Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum Corp and Bharat Petroleum Corp will have to cough up more to buy the expensive crude.
The present percentage of blending of bio-diesel in diesel was less than 0.1% and that of average ethanol blending percentage in petrol was 8% as of July 26.
Petrol, diesel prices have been passed on to consumers and not subsidised, raising fuel prices to all-time high in many parts of the country.