{"id":466452,"date":"2022-02-05T11:51:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T06:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=466452"},"modified":"2022-02-05T11:51:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T06:21:57","slug":"bpcl-disinvestment-uncertain-with-just-one-bidder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bpcl-disinvestment-uncertain-with-just-one-bidder\/","title":{"rendered":"BPCL disinvestment uncertain with just one bidder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI:  The disinvestment of state-owned Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) seems to be uncertain as the country\u2019s second-biggest refiner failed to get bidders. An official said, it has attracted only one bidder so far, whereas the government was expecting global majors such as Saudi Aramco.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to environmental concerns and ESG considerations, very few bidders showed interest in BPCL. We only had one bidder and we thought that was not a competitive bidding,\u201d said a finance ministry official on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The disinvestment of state-owned Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) seems to be uncertain as the country\u2019s second-biggest refiner failed to get bidders. An official said, it has attracted only one bidder so far, whereas the government was expecting global majors such as Saudi Aramco. \u201cDue to environmental concerns and ESG considerations, very few bidders showed interest in BPCL. We only had one bidder and we thought that was not a competitive bidding,\u201d said a finance ministry official on the condition of anonymity.<\/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":[130,207,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466452","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=466452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}