BPCL eyes 50% more Saudi oil in FY12

09 Mar 2011 Evaluate

Bharat Petroleum Corp (BPCL) aims to buy more oil from Saudi Arabia and other countries in 2011/12 to feed its expanded capacity and hedge against supply worries due to unrest in Libya and a payments dispute with Iran. It plans to import 120,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil from Saudi Arabia in the next fiscal year beginning April versus an estimated 80,000 bpd this year.

BPCL aims to process 70,000 bpd Saudi Arabia volumes at its recently commissioned Bina refinery in Central India and the rest at its Kochi and Mumbai plants that can together process 430,000 bpd. BPCL planned to continue lifting 10,000 bpd from Libya, 30,000 bpd from Algeria's Sonatrach and 5,000 bpd each from Malaysia and Brunei-Shell for its Kochi and Mumbai plants.BPCL also plans to import 10,000 bpd of oil from Kuwait for Bina, taking its overall imports from the Islamic nation to 60,000 bpd versus 40,000 in the last fiscal year.

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