Refiners expect fuel losses to cross Rs 1-lakh crore next fiscal

02 Feb 2011 Evaluate

With crude oil prices moving upwards of $90 a barrel and the US dollar set to stage a strong rally, IndianOil, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation and Bharat Petroleum Corporation could end up incurring fuel losses of over Rs 1,00,000 crore in 2011-12.

This will mark a 35 per cent jump from the current fiscal's projected losses of Rs 75,000 crore. The biggest worry is that the rupee is expected to remain at around Rs 47 against the US dollar through 2011-12. In the process, fuel losses will be at par with 2008-09 levels when they had touched Rs 1,03,000 crore.

All this will be bad news to upstream oil companies such as the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation which make good one-third the refiners' fuel losses as part of the compensation formula. In the process, along with GAIL and Oil India, ONGC will cough up closer to Rs 35,000 crore in 2011-12, a big jump from this fiscal's estimated outgo of Rs 25,000 crore.

© 2024 The Alchemists Ark Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. MoneyWorks4Me ® is a registered trademark of The Alchemists Ark Pvt.Ltd.