BPCL climbs on its arm planning to drill 16 wells this fiscal

19 Sep 2011 Evaluate

BPCL is currently trading at Rs. 664.50, up by 4.70 points or 0.71% from its previous closing of Rs. 659.80 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 661.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 664.80 and Rs. 651.00 respectively. So far 35000 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 814.90 on 21-Sep-2010 and a 52 week low of Rs. 530.00 on 24-Feb-2011.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 694.90 and Rs. 648.35 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 24,024 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 54.93% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 26.79% and 17.28% respectively. 

State-run oil marketer Bharat Petroleum Corporation’s (BPCL), wholly-owned subsidiary Bharat PetroResources (BPRL) is likely to drill 16 wells by this fiscal-end. It also aims of making further discoveries in its blocks in the country, as well as overseas.

BPRL today has 27 blocks, out of which nine are acquired by the company under different rounds of the New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) is located within the country and 18 are abroad, spanning six countries. With 27 exploration blocks spread over seven countries, the strategy going forward will be to consolidate their position in these blocks and basins.  In 2010-11, the company made discoveries in Brazil, Mozambique and Indonesia. It has also discovered natural gas in four of six wells drilled in Mozambique, besides light hydrocarbons in offshore Brazil and oil and gas in Indonesia.

Other than India, BPRL holds blocks in Australia, Brazil, East Timor, Indonesia, Mozambique and Britain. BPRL's total acreage in all these blocks is around 81,000 sq km, of which around 90% are offshore acreages. These blocks are in various stages of exploration.

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