{"id":376062,"date":"2020-09-30T10:55:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T05:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=376062"},"modified":"2020-09-30T10:55:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T05:25:47","slug":"oil-majors-rosneft-saudi-aramco-unlikely-to-bid-for-bpcl-privatisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-majors-rosneft-saudi-aramco-unlikely-to-bid-for-bpcl-privatisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil majors Rosneft, Saudi Aramco unlikely to bid for BPCL privatisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil majors Rosneft and Saudi Aramco are unlikely to bid in the privatisation of Indian refiner Bharat Petroleum NSE -5.17 % Corp, sources familiar with the matter said, as low oil prices and weak fuel demand curb investment plans.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s Rosneft had expressed interest in buying the federal government&#8217;s 53.29% stake in Bharat Petroleum (BPCL) when CEO Igor Sechin visited New Delhi in February, while India&#8217;s trade minister has said that Aramco was enthusiastic about the stake sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil majors Rosneft and Saudi Aramco are unlikely to bid in the privatisation of Indian refiner Bharat Petroleum NSE -5.17 % Corp, sources familiar with the matter said, as low oil prices and weak fuel demand curb investment plans. Russia&#8217;s Rosneft had expressed interest in buying the federal government&#8217;s 53.29% stake in Bharat Petroleum (BPCL) when CEO Igor Sechin visited New Delhi in February, while India&#8217;s trade minister has said that Aramco was enthusiastic about the stake sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376062","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}