HPCL gains on plan of expanding capacity of Mumbai, Vizag refineries

29 May 2014 Evaluate

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) is currently trading at Rs. 416.50, up by 8.00 points or 1.96% from its previous closing of Rs. 408.50 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 424.30 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 425.05 and Rs. 415.00 respectively. So far 119015 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A ' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 458.70 on 26-May-2014 and a 52 week low of Rs. 158.45 on 28-Aug-2013.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 458.70 and Rs. 405.75 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 14178.32 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 51.11 % while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 32.76 % and 16.13 % respectively.

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) is reportedly aiming to increase its Mumbai refinery’s capacity to 200,000 barrels per day from 130,000 bpd. The state-run company is also aiming to expand the Vizag refinery’s capacity to 300,000 bpd from 166,000 bpd.

In this regard, the company will spend Rs 17000 crore for expanding the refineries. Further, the company will be able to get the environment approval by the end of this year.

HPCL operates two major refineries producing a wide variety of petroleum fuels and specialties, one in Mumbai (west coast) of 6.5 million metric tonnes per annum (MMTPA) capacity and the other in Vishakapatnam, (east coast) with a capacity of 7.5 MMTPA.

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