ONGC surges after its arm gets cabinet nod to acquire 11% stake in Russia’s JSC Vankorneft

06 Oct 2016 Evaluate

Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is currently trading at Rs. 271.80, up by 5.05 points or 1.89% from its previous closing of Rs. 266.75 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 268.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 273.00 and Rs. 268.00 respectively. So far 147448 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 5 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 275.25 on 05-Oct-2016 and a 52 week low of Rs. 188.00 on 12-Feb-2016.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 275.25 and Rs. 248.30 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 232923.22 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 68.93%, while institutions and non-institutions held 17.36% and 13.71% respectively.

ONGC’s wholly owned subsidiary- ONGC Videsh (OVL) has received approval from the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs to acquire 11% stake in Russia’s Vankor oil fields from Rosneft Oil Company for $930 million, which will take its overall stake in the project to 26%. OVL had bought a 15 per cent stake in the field for $1.268 billion last year. The acquisition will provide 3.2 million tonne of oil equivalent (mtoe) to OVL by 2017.

ONGC is India's largest government-run corporation and produces about 70% of India's crude oil and natural gas. The corporation is the biggest public sector commercial organization in India with current market capitalization of about $31 billion.

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