{"id":423215,"date":"2021-06-30T08:42:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T03:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=423215"},"modified":"2021-06-30T09:19:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T03:49:35","slug":"ongcs-improved-earnings-outlook-for-12-18-months-to-support-deleveraging-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ongcs-improved-earnings-outlook-for-12-18-months-to-support-deleveraging-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ONGC&#8217;s improved earnings outlook for 12-18 months to support deleveraging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rating agency Standard and Poor&#8217;s on Tuesday said state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd&#8217;s (ONGC) improved earnings outlook for the next 12-18 months will support deleveraging.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expect the India-based company to benefit from favorable crude oil prices over FY22 (year ending March 31, 2022),&#8221; S&amp;P said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is rated at &#8220;BBB-\/Stable&#8221;. Our &#8216;BBB-&#8216; issuer credit rating on ONGC remains constrained by the sovereign credit rating on India (BBB-\/Stable\/A-3),&#8221; the agency added.<\/p>\n<p>The rating agency has revised Brent crude oil price expectations for the rest of 2021 to $65 per barrel from $60 per barrel earlier. This forecast is significantly higher than about $43 per barrel that ONGC realised in FY21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rating agency Standard and Poor&#8217;s on Tuesday said state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd&#8217;s (ONGC) improved earnings outlook for the next 12-18 months will support deleveraging. &#8220;We expect the India-based company to benefit from favorable crude oil prices over FY22 (year ending March 31, 2022),&#8221; S&amp;P said in a statement. &#8220;It is rated at &#8220;BBB-\/Stable&#8221;. Our &#8216;BBB-&#8216; issuer credit rating on ONGC remains constrained by the sovereign credit rating on India (BBB-\/Stable\/A-3),&#8221; the agency added. The rating agency has revised Brent crude oil price expectations for the rest of 2021 to $65 per barrel from $60 per barrel earlier. [&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-423215","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\/423215","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=423215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}