Microsoft had on July 22 suspended tech support for the refiner after the European Union sanctioned Nayara Energy, which challenged the move in the Delhi High Court
A government draft on emission reduction target has for the first time mandated to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by oil PSUs like IOC, BPCL, HPCL, GAIL and ONGC, along with private sector refineries.
While state-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) continue to hold prices despite a drop in international rates, private fuel retailers have started passing on the benefit to consumers.
Revenue from operations dropped to Rs 24,757.7 crore in the third quarter of the current fiscal from Rs 32,412.9 crore a year back.
Oil marketing companies have incurred huge losses on petrol and diesel retail sales this year and may take more time to recover the past losses
Panicker, who currently is Director and Head of Refinery at Nayara, will replace Charles Anthony (Tony) Fountain, whose five-year term is ending, the company said in a statement
The government on July 1 levied Rs 13 per litre additional excise duty on diesel exported out of India.
Worst hit are private retailers like Nayara Energy, Jio-bp and Shell, who have so far refused to curtail any volume despite a surge in sales.
Oil major Rosneft owns a 49.13 percent stake in Nayara while a similar-sized holding is split between global commodities trading house Trafigura and Cyprus-based Russian investment group United Capital Partners.
Rosneft, along with a investment consortium comprising global commodity trading firm Trafigura and UCP Investment Group acquired the downstream and petrochemicals company in August 2017.
New Delhi, Aug 26 Russia's Rosneft-backed Nayara Energy on Thursday said it has achieved financial closure for phase-one expansion plans for petroc..
Such a step by Reliance, which operates the world's biggest refining complex, and Nayara - part owned by Russian oil major Rosneft - would severely curtail purchases by one of Venezuela's last big export destinations. India accounted for about a third of Venezuela's oil shipments in January.
Nayara Energy, erstwhile known as Essar Oil, operates a 20 million tonnes a year oil refinery at Vadinar.
Essar has sought a stay on an RBI order imposing compounded amounts (penalty) and quashing of summons for alleged breach of limits under the FEMA.
Rosneft and its partners had in August last year completed a $12.9-billion acquisition of Essar Oil to enter the world's fastest-growing energy market. This April, they changed the name of the firm to Nayara Energy.