{"id":364785,"date":"2020-07-25T12:49:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T07:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=364785"},"modified":"2020-07-25T12:49:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T07:19:44","slug":"dozens-of-queries-show-investor-appetite-for-india-oil-firm-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dozens-of-queries-show-investor-appetite-for-india-oil-firm-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of queries show investor appetite for India oil firm sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s biggest asset sale program is drawing interest from global investors despite the volatility in the oil markets and devastating fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 81 queries were sent by prospective bidders vying for state-owned oil refiner-cum-fuel retailer Bharat Petroleum Corp., according to officials with knowledge of the matter. While the questions from multiple international oil majors is a reflection of interest, it doesn\u2019t mean they will translate into bids, they said, without disclosing how many companies have sought clarifications.<\/p>\n<p>A government official had previously said that several top oil producers from the Middle East and Russia\u2019s Rosneft PJSC have shown interest in buying BPCL, which is India\u2019s third-biggest refiner and second-largest fuel retailer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s biggest asset sale program is drawing interest from global investors despite the volatility in the oil markets and devastating fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. As many as 81 queries were sent by prospective bidders vying for state-owned oil refiner-cum-fuel retailer Bharat Petroleum Corp., according to officials with knowledge of the matter. While the questions from multiple international oil majors is a reflection of interest, it doesn\u2019t mean they will translate into bids, they said, without disclosing how many companies have sought clarifications. A government official had previously said that several top oil producers from the Middle East and Russia\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364785","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}