{"id":298927,"date":"2019-11-01T10:50:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T05:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=298927"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:00:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T05:30:56","slug":"ioc-profit-before-tax-falls-83-in-sep-quarter-on-higher-inventory-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ioc-profit-before-tax-falls-83-in-sep-quarter-on-higher-inventory-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"IOC profit before tax falls 83% in Sep quarter on higher inventory losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-run Indian Oil Corporation&#8217;s (IOC\u2019s) profit before tax (PBT) fell by 83 per cent to Rs 814.48 crore for the quarter ending September, owing to higher inventory losses and a decline in refinery margin. It had recorded Rs 4,805.74 crore PBT during the same period last year. <\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s net profit was Rs 563.42 crore, as against Rs 3,246.93 crore during the same period in 2018-19. \u201cThe decline in profit during the quarter was mainly on account of inventory loss against an inventory gain during the previous year,\u201d said Sanjiv Singh, chairman of IOC, said at a press conference on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s inventory loss was seen at Rs 1,807 crore during the quarter, as against an inventory gain of Rs 2,895 crore last year. On the other hand, gross refining margin (GRM) was $1.28 a barrel during the quarter versus $6.79 a barrel a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-run Indian Oil Corporation&#8217;s (IOC\u2019s) profit before tax (PBT) fell by 83 per cent to Rs 814.48 crore for the quarter ending September, owing to higher inventory losses and a decline in refinery margin. It had recorded Rs 4,805.74 crore PBT during the same period last year. The company\u2019s net profit was Rs 563.42 crore, as against Rs 3,246.93 crore during the same period in 2018-19. \u201cThe decline in profit during the quarter was mainly on account of inventory loss against an inventory gain during the previous year,\u201d said Sanjiv Singh, chairman of IOC, said at a press conference on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}