Essar Oil surges on renewing product sale and purchase agreement with IOC

28 Nov 2011 Evaluate

Essar Oil (EOL) is currently trading at Rs 71.45, up by 2.30 points or 3.33% from its previous closing of Rs 69.15 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs 70.80 and has touched a high and low of Rs 72.15 and Rs 69.80 respectively. So far 150033 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs 147.80 on 11-Apr-2011 and a 52 week low of Rs 66.30 on 24-Nov-2011.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs 73.25 and Rs 66.30 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs 9443.59 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 15.96% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 4.60% and 5.44% respectively.

EOL has renewed a major product sale and purchase agreement with Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), India's largest oil retailer. The contract with IOC will be Essar Oil's largest fuel supply contract.

The renewed three year agreement, running from 2012 to 2015 requires EOL to supply diesel, petrol, kerosene and ATF (aviation turbine fuel) to IOC from its Vadinar Refinery, totaling 2 million tonnes every year. It also entitles EOL to purchase products from IOC and give the two companies the option of sharing each other's distribution infrastructure.

Further, EOL has similar product sale and purchase agreements with two other leading oil marketing companies from the public sector, namely Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation.

Essar is currently completing a phase 1 expansion project at its Vadinar refinery which will increase capacity from 14.7 million tonnes a year to 18 million tonnes (375,000 barrels per day) by March 2012. A concurrent optimisation project will increase capacity further to 20 million tonnes (405,000 bpd) by September 2012.

Essar Oil, a fully integrated Oil and Gas Company of international scale which is engaged in the exploration and production of oil and gas, refining of crude oil, and marketing of petroleum products.

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