{"id":384930,"date":"2020-11-19T10:59:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T05:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=384930"},"modified":"2020-11-19T10:59:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T05:29:53","slug":"vedanta-group-puts-in-expression-of-interest-to-buy-government-stake-in-fuel-retailer-bpcl-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/vedanta-group-puts-in-expression-of-interest-to-buy-government-stake-in-fuel-retailer-bpcl-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vedanta Group puts in expression of interest to buy government stake in fuel retailer BPCL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Vedanta NSE 5.14 % Resources said it submitted an expression of interest (EoI) for the government&#8217;s stake in Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd, making it one of three likely bidders, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The privatisation of India&#8217;s second largest oil refining and marketing company is key to the government&#8217;s disinvestment programme for the fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vedanta&#8217;s EoI for BPCL is to evaluate potential synergies with our existing oil and gas business,&#8221; a company spokesperson said Wednesday. &#8220;The EoI is at a preliminary stage and exploratory in nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Vedanta NSE 5.14 % Resources said it submitted an expression of interest (EoI) for the government&#8217;s stake in Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd, making it one of three likely bidders, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The privatisation of India&#8217;s second largest oil refining and marketing company is key to the government&#8217;s disinvestment programme for the fiscal year. &#8220;Vedanta&#8217;s EoI for BPCL is to evaluate potential synergies with our existing oil and gas business,&#8221; a company spokesperson said Wednesday. &#8220;The EoI is at a preliminary stage and exploratory in nature.&#8221;<\/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-384930","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\/384930","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=384930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}