Essar Oil exits corporate debt restructuring programme

05 Apr 2013 Evaluate

Essar Oil (EOL), the country’s second-largest private sector refiner, has completed the process for exiting the Corporate Debt Restructuring (CDR) loan facility set up in December 2004 to help cover the construction of its Vadinar refinery in Gujarat. The CDR loan facility has been replaced with a new debt facility of about Rs 9,100 crore on commercial terms from similar group of lenders.

As part of dollarization of its rupee term debt, EOL has refinanced Rs 2,611 crore of rupee term loans into equivalent foreign currency debt of $481 million through ECBs /Swaps. This will help in reduction of long-term interest cost. The company is currently servicing debt at an average of 11.5% and the refinancing will help it to reduce the rate to around 6%. This will result in savings of $120-150 million every year. The company had received RBI approval of $2.27 billion to replace its high cost rupee debt with ECBs, and now with the CDR exit, the company will be able to refinance the remaining rupee loans to ECB.

Essar Oil is a fully integrated oil & gas company of international scale with strong presence across the hydrocarbon value chain from exploration & production to refining and oil retail.

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