{"id":643738,"date":"2025-08-20T08:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=643738"},"modified":"2025-08-20T08:41:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:11:26","slug":"retail-fuel-margins-propel-oil-psus-q1-net-up-2-5-fold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/retail-fuel-margins-propel-oil-psus-q1-net-up-2-5-fold\/","title":{"rendered":"Retail fuel margins propel oil PSUs&#8217; Q1 net up 2.5-fold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Oil Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) posted a combined profit of \u20b916,184 crore in the quarter to June, an increase of more than two and a half times year-on-year, buoyed by extraordinary retail margins on petrol and diesel despite heavy inventory losses.<\/p>\n<p>Petrol earned the state-run oil marketers an estimated \u20b910.3 per litre at the pump, up from \u20b9 4.4 a year earlier, while diesel fetched \u20b98.2 per litre versus \u20b92.5, according to brokerage ICICI Securities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Oil Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) posted a combined profit of \u20b916,184 crore in the quarter to June, an increase of more than two and a half times year-on-year, buoyed by extraordinary retail margins on petrol and diesel despite heavy inventory losses. Petrol earned the state-run oil marketers an estimated \u20b910.3 per litre at the pump, up from \u20b9 4.4 a year earlier, while diesel fetched \u20b98.2 per litre versus \u20b92.5, according to brokerage ICICI Securities.<\/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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643738","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\/643738","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=643738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}