NEW DELHI: Petroleum minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Saturday said oil companies will be in a position to look at the issue of reducing prices of petrol and diesel if the international crude cost remains stable and they have a good next quarter. He, however, also said he is not in a position to make an announcement on the issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we go along we will see what can be done,\u201d he said at a press conference when asked if bringing down fuel prices is on the government\u2019s agenda. He said state-run oil marketing companies did \u201cokay\u201d in the last quarter. \u201cThey have recovered some of their losses. As we go along we will see what can be done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The government has ensured that there has been no increase in oil prices since April 22, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Petroleum minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Saturday said oil companies will be in a position to look at the issue of reducing prices of petrol and diesel if the international crude cost remains stable and they have a good next quarter. He, however, also said he is not in a position to make an announcement on the issue. \u201cAs we go along we will see what can be done,\u201d he said at a press conference when asked if bringing down fuel prices is on the government\u2019s agenda. He said state-run oil marketing companies did \u201cokay\u201d in the last […]<\/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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583711","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=583711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}