Bharat Petroleum

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
Company typePublic
ISININE029A01011
IndustryEnergy: Oil and gas
Founded1976 Edit this on Wikidata
HeadquartersMumbai, Maharashtra, India
Key people
G Krishnakumar
(Chairman & MD)[1]
Products
RevenueIncrease ₹509,227 crore (US$61 billion)[2] (2024)
Increase ₹36,194 crore (US$4.3 billion)[2] (2024)
Increase ₹26,859 crore (US$3.2 billion)[2] (2024)
Total assetsIncrease ₹202,418 crore (US$24 billion)[3] (2024)
Total equityIncrease ₹75,635 crore (US$9.1 billion)[3] (2024)
OwnerGovernment of India
Number of employees
8,506 permanent and 25,848 contractual (31 March 2024)
Divisions
  • Bharat Petroresources Limited
  • Bharat Gas Resources Limited
  • Bharat Renewable Energy Limited
Subsidiaries
Websitewww.bharatpetroleum.in Edit this at Wikidata

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is an Indian public sector oil and gas company, headquartered in Mumbai. It is India's second-largest government-owned downstream oil producer, whose operations are overseen by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. It operates three refineries in Bina, Kochi and Mumbai.[4] BPCL was ranked 309th on the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's biggest corporations in 2020,[5] and 1052nd on Forbes Global 2000 in 2023.[6]

History

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1891 to 1976

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The company today known as BPCL started off as the Rangoon Oil and Exploration company set up to explore the new discoveries off Assam and Burma (now Myanmar) during the British colonial rule over India. In 1889 during vast industrial development, an important player in the South Asian market was the Burmah Oil Company. Though incorporated in Scotland in 1886, the company grew out of the enterprises of the Chef Rohit Oil Company, which had been formed in 1871 to refine crude oil produced from primitive hand dug wells in Upper Burma.

In 1928, Asiatic Petroleum Company (India) started cooperation with Burma Oil Company. Asiatic Petroleum was a joint venture of Royal Dutch, Shell and Rothschilds formed to address the monopoly of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, which also operated in India as Esso. This alliance led to the formation of Burmah-Shell Oil Storage and Distributing Company of India Limited. Burmah Shell began its operations with import and marketing of Kerosene.[7]

In the mid-1950s, the company began to sell LPG cylinders to homes in India and further expanded its delivery network. It also marketed kerosene, diesel and petrol in cans in order to reach remote parts of India. In 1951, the Burmah shell began to build a refinery in Trombay (Mahul, Maharashtra) under an agreement with the Government of India.

Nationalisation

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A BPCL petrol filling station

In 1976, the company was nationalized under the Act on the Nationalisation of Foreign Oil companies ESSO (1974), Burma Shell (1976) and Caltex (1977).[8] On 24 January 1976, the Burmah Shell was taken over by the Government of India to form Bharat Refineries Limited. On 1 August 1977, it was renamed Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited. It was also the first refinery to process newly found indigenous crude Mumbai High Field.

A BPCL retail outlet in Indore, Madhya Pradesh
BPCL petrol filling station at Basaveshwaranagara, Bangalore, Karnataka

In 2003, the government attempted to privatize the company. However, following a petition by the Centre for Public Interest Litigation, the Supreme Court restrained the Central government from privatizing Hindustan Petroleum and Bharat Petroleum without the approval of Parliament.[9] As counsel for the CPIL, Rajinder Sachar and Prashant Bhushan said that the only way to disinvest in the companies would be to repeal or amend the Acts by which they were nationalized in the 1970s.[10] As a result, the government would need a majority in both houses to push through any privatization.[11]

Parliament enacted the Repealing and Amending Act, 2016 in May 2016 which repealed the legislation that had nationalized the company.[12] In 2017, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) received Maharatna status, putting it in the category of government-owned entities in India with the largest market capitalization and consistently high profits.[13] In 2021, BPCL announced plans to invest US$4.05 billion in order to improve petrochemical capacity and refining efficiencies, over the next five years.[14]

Operations

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Bharat Petroleum operates the following refineries:

They have popular Loyalty Program like Petrocard, Smartfleet.

As of 2018, BPCL was also setting up a Second-generation biofuels refinery at Baulsingha village in Bargarh district, Odisha of 100 kilo litre per day (KLPD) capacity.[17] The plant would be using 2 Lakh tonnes of rice straw to generate fuel.[18]

Subsidiaries

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Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL), a joint venture between Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and the Government of Delhi to operate the Delhi City Gas Distribution Project.

Petronet LNG, a joint venture company promoted by the Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOC) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) to import LNG and set up LNG terminals in the country.

Bharat Renewable Energy Limited, a joint venture company promoted by BPCL with Nandan Cleantech Limited (Nandan Biomatrix Limited), Hyderabad and Shapoorji Pallonji Group, through their affiliate, S.P. Agri Management Services Pvt.Ltd. specializes in offering Bio diesel plants, ethanol, bio-diesel plants, Karanj (Millettia pinnata), Jatropha and Pongamia (Pongamia Pinnata) plantation services, renewable generation services etc. In 2013 Shapoorji Pallonji Group exited the joint venture.[19]

Ownership

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The cabinet had cleared a plan to sell 53.3% of its stake in Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL)[citation needed] with the rest owned by Foreign Portfolio Investors (13.7%), Domestic Institutional Investors (12%), Insurance (8.24%) and the balance held by individual share holders. [20] But as of 2024, such a plan is said to be off the table. [21]

Plans of Disinvestment

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On 21 November 2019, the Government of India approved the privatization of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL).[22] The government invited bids for the sale of its 52.98% stake in the company on 7 March 2020.[23] The Government decided to consolidate the businesses of BPCL before privatization starting with the Numaligarh Refinery Ltd. (NRL). The Government decided to keep Numaligarh Refinery Ltd. (NRL) in the public sector, honouring the Assam Peace Accord. In March 2021, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) sold its entire 61.5% stake in Numaligarh Refinery in Assam to a consortium of Oil India Ltd. and Engineers India Ltd. and Government of Assam for ₹9,876 crore.[24] BPCL also acquired a 36.62% stake in Bharat Oman Refineries (BORL) or Bina refinery situated at Bina in Madhya Pradesh, India from OQ company, for ₹2,400 crore. BPCL has been holding 63.4 per cent and OQ 36.6 per cent equity in the company. The Government of Madhya Pradesh has a minor stake in the company through compulsorily convertible warrants. With the acquisition of OQ's entire stake in BORL, BPCL will establish control over BORL.[25][26]

The Indian Government attempted to sell BPCL during fiscal year 2021–2022.[27] However, the sale of BPCL has been pushed to fiscal year 2022–2023, and it has been reported that the Government is building a new strategy for the sale of the company.[28] In addition to this, it has also been reported that rising oil prices, along with increasing development and use of green energy, is leading to delays in the privatisation process.[29] On June, 12 2024, the Petroleum Minister of India informed that any plans of disinvestment is off the table. [30]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Bharat Petroleum Website Board of Directors".
  2. ^ a b c "Bharat Petroleum Corporation Consolidated Profit & Loss account, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Financial Statement & Accounts" (PDF). www.bseindia.com. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
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  5. ^ "Global 500". Fortune. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  6. ^ "The Global 2000 2023". Forbes. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
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  8. ^ "SC stays disinvestment in HPCL, BPCL". The Tribune. 17 September 2003. Archived from the original on 2 December 2008. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  9. ^ SAMANWAYA RAUTRAY AND PHEROZE L. VINCENT (4 March 2011). "Feather in cap for graft fighters". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 9 May 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
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  11. ^ Gopal Ganesh (2008). Privatisation And Labour Restructuring. Academic Foundation. p. 136. ISBN 978-8171886340.
  12. ^ "BPCL nationalisation Act repealed in 2016; privatisation way clear". Archived from the original on 8 October 2019. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  13. ^ "BPCL gets Maharatna status; shares rise over 4%". The Economic Times. 12 September 2017. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  14. ^ "Chemical Industry, Chemicals Manufacturers and Exporters in India - IBEF". India Brand Equity Foundation. May 2022. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
  15. ^ "Bharat Petroleum | Energising Environment | Refineries | Mumbai Refinery". Archived from the original on 19 September 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
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  17. ^ "BPCL gets green nod for Rs 747 cr ethanol project in Odisha". Economic Times. 12 August 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  18. ^ Singha, Minati (7 October 2018). "BPCL to set up country's first biofuel plant at Bargarh district in Odisha". Times of India. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  19. ^ Pathak, Kalpana (23 September 2013). "Shapoorji Pallonji to exit renewable energy venture floated with BPCL". Business Standard India. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  20. ^ "Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd financial results and price chart - Screener". www.screener.in. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  21. ^ "Modi 3.0: BPCL privatisation completely off the table, high revenue PSUs need not be sold, says Hardeep Singh Puri". 11 June 2024.
  22. ^ Roychoudhury, Arup (21 November 2019). "Privatisation push: Cabinet approves strategic sale of BPCL, 4 other PSUs". Business Standard India. Archived from the original on 23 November 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  23. ^ "Govt invites bids for BPCL, to sell full 52.98% stake in company". Moneycontrol. 7 March 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  24. ^ "BPCL offloads entire 61.5% stake in Numaligarh Refinery for Rs 9,876 crore". www.businesstoday.in. 26 March 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  25. ^ "India's Bharat Petroleum buys OQ's entire in Bina refinery". www.hydrocarbons-technology.com. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  26. ^ "BPCL Acquires Oman's 36.6% Stake In Bina Refinery". Moneycontrol. 31 March 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  27. ^ Moneycontrol News (17 November 2021). "Govt will privatise 5-6 companies in 2021-22, including BPCL: DIPAM Secretary". Moneycontrol. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  28. ^ Batra, Shubham (5 May 2022). "Why Modi govt's BPCL privatisation process ran out of gas and is back to the drawing board". ThePrint. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  29. ^ Aulakh, Gulveen (22 April 2022). "Centre weighs going back to drawing board on BPCL sale". mint. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  30. ^ "Modi 3.0: BPCL privatisation completely off the table, high revenue PSUs need not be sold, says Hardeep Singh Puri". 11 June 2024.
  31. ^ "Sonia to lay foundation for Rajiv Gandhi Petroleum Institute in Rae Bareli | TopNews". Archived from the original on 9 May 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
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