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Petrol sales down 61%, diesel 56.5% in April. (PTI Photo)

Petrol and diesel sales shrink in April; demand expected to pick up...

The demand is expected to further pick up as more areas were opened up on Monday

4 May 2020 4:11 PM IST

Indias August fuel consumption posts biggest monthly decline since April. (PTI Photo)

Fuel consumption in August witnesses biggest monthly dip since April

Refined fuel sales slipped to 14.39 million tonnes in August, about 16% lower compared with the consumption in the same...

10 Sept 2020 9:15 AM IST

Indian Oil Corp Ltd reported a nearly 18 per cent rise in second-quarter profit.

IOC to invest Rs 1.4 lakh crore to double refining capacity

Company currently owns and operates 11 out of the country's 23 refineries.

31 March 2018 4:59 PM IST

India imported 8.7 million tonnes of LPG in 2015-16 and 4.66 million tonnes in first half of current fiscal.

India's fuel demand rose 3.4 per cent in May

Sales of gasoline, or petrol, were 2.0 per cent higher from a year earlier at 2.46 million tonnes.

9 Jun 2018 10:22 AM IST

The Cabinet on Wednesday approved the National Policy on Biofuels which allows doping of ethanol produced from damaged foodgrains, rotten potatoes, corn and sugar beet with petrol to cut oil imports by Rs 4,000 crore this year alone.

Novel catalyst can help harvest fuel from water

Scientists have developed an inexpensive material that can help split water to produce hydrogen fuel.

30 Jun 2018 1:06 PM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

Climate change may be responsible for lightning-ignited fires

Climate change is amplifying climate-fire teleconnections.

5 Jun 2018 3:47 PM IST

The Cabinet on Wednesday approved the National Policy on Biofuels which allows doping of ethanol produced from damaged foodgrains, rotten potatoes, corn and sugar beet with petrol to cut oil imports by Rs 4,000 crore this year alone.

Petrol crosses Rs 80 in three cities; lowest in Delhi

Petrol is retailed at Rs 80.00 in Kolkata, Rs 84.50 in Mumbai and Rs 80.05 in Chennai.

7 Aug 2018 11:30 AM IST

Crude oil was trading higher 0.68 per cent to Rs 4,139 per barrel in futures market on Thursday.

Saudi Aramco, ADNOC can't export Ratnagiri refinery fuel without PSU's...

India has a refining capacity of 232.066 MT, which exceeded the demand of 194.2 MN in 2016-17.

15 Aug 2018 2:41 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the World Bio-Fuel Day 2018 function in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Let's talk development: Why the system needs fixing

Availability of resources need not constraint our understanding of linkages and our ability to come up with effective...

22 Aug 2018 12:14 AM IST

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley (Photo: PTI)

Jaitley asks states to cut VAT on natural gas, other fuel

Jaitley requested other states to explore possibility of having a lower rate of VAT on petroleum products.

18 Aug 2017 1:47 PM IST

The govt official stressed on the need to ensure that consumers obtained accurate and unadulterated quantities of fuel purchased by them. (Photo: PTI)

India's fuel demand grows 1 per cent in July

Fuel consumption in July totalled 15.8 million tonnes as compared to 15.63 million tonnes last year.

14 Aug 2017 5:52 PM IST

ust as solar light can generate electricity, the water splitting process could do the same via the generation of clean chemical fuel such as hydrogen.

New way to create fuel from water

Hydrogen could be a promising clean fuel over petrol in foreseeable future.

29 Nov 2016 3:48 PM IST