Indian Oil Corporation

Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), (d/b/a Indian Oil) is an Indian multinational oil and gas company under the ownership of the Government of India and administrative control of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. It is a public sector undertaking which is registered in Mumbai and headquartered in New Delhi. It is the largest government-owned oil producer in the country both in terms of capacity and revenue. It has consolidated refining capacity of 80.55MMTPA.

Indian Oil's business interests overlap the entire hydrocarbon value chain, including refining, pipeline, marketing of petroleum products, exploration and production of Petroleum, natural gas and petrochemicals. Indian Oil has ventured into renewable energy and globalisation of downstream operations. It has subsidiaries in Sri Lanka (Lanka IOC), Mauritius (IndianOil (Mauritius) Ltd), and the Middle East (IOC Middle East FZE).

Indian Oil is ranked 94th on the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's biggest corporations as of 2022. As of 31 March 2021, Indian Oil has 31,648 employees, out of which 17,762 are executives and 13,876 non-executives, while 2,776 are women.

History In May 2018, IOCL became India's most profitable government corporation for the second consecutive year, with a record profit of ₹21,346 crores in 2017–18. In February 2020, the company signed a deal with the Russian oil company Rosneft to buy 140,000 barrels per day of crude in year 2020. By 1 April 2020, IndianOil was in absolute readiness to launch BS-VI (Bharat Stage VI) fuels in all its retail outlets in Telangana and adopt world-class emission norms.

In January 2021, sales were registered at an all-time high of 410,000 barrels of oil per day till 26 January 2021. Delek, QatarEnergy, and Saudi Aramco are its largest business partners, with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and National Iranian Oil Company signing deals to deliver high production output by the end of 2020.

In March 2022, Apollo Hospitals replaced Indian Oil Corporation in Nifty 50 benchmark index.

Operations

Business divisions There are seven major business divisions in the organisation: Refineries Division Pipelines Division Marketing Division R&D Division Petrochemicals Division Exploration & Production (E&P) Division Explosives and Cryogenics Division

Products and services

Indian Oil accounts for nearly half of India's petroleum products market share, 35% national refining capacity (together with its subsidiary Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd. or CPCL), and 71% downstream sector pipelines through capacity. The Indian Oil Group owns and operates 11 of India's 23 refineries with a combined refining capacity of 80.7 million tonnes per year. Indian Oil's cross-country pipeline network, for the transport of crude oil to refineries and finished products to high-demand centres, spans over 13,000 km. The company has a throughput capacity of 80.49 million tonnes per year for crude oil and petroleum products and 9.5 million cubic metres per day at standard conditions for gas. On 19 November 2017, IOCL, in collaboration with Ola, launched India's first electric charging station at one of its petrol-diesel stations in Nagpur. Indian governments' National Electric Mobility Mission Plan launched in 2013 aims at gradually ensuring a vehicle population of 6 to 8 million electric and hybrid vehicles in India by 2020.

Servo is the lubricants brand under which IOCL operates its lubricant business. Servo is the largest selling lubricant brand in both automotive and industrial segments.

It is said that deals with Royal Dutch Shell and Surgutneftegas and Chevron Corporation have been signed for exclusive business plans for supply in Asia with the Indian Oil Company, which are worth 20 billion dollars per year.

Oil refinery locations

Barauni Refinery Bongaigaon Refinery CPCL, Chennai CPCL, Narimanam Digboi Refinery Guwahati Refinery Haldia Refinery Koyali Refinery Mathura Refinery Panipat Refinery Paradip Refinery Gujarat Refinery

Pipelines Salaya - Mathura crude oil pipeline Mundra - Panipat crude oil pipeline Paradip-Haldia-Barauni crude oil pipeline Kandla–Bhatinda Oil Pipeline Koyali - Mohanpura product pipeline Koyali - Ahmedabad product pipeline Guwahati - Siliguri product pipeline Barauni - Kanpur product pipeline Patna-Motihari-Baitalpur Product pipeline Haldia - Mourigram - Rajbandh product pipeline Haldia - Barauni product pipeline Panipat - Jalandhar LPG pipeline Dadri - Panipat R-LNG pipeline Koyali - Ratlam product pipeline Koyali - Dahej/ Hazira product pipeline Panipat - Bhatinda product pipeline Panipat - Rewari product pipeline Panipat - Ambala - Jalandhar product pipeline Mathura - Delhi product pipeline Mathura - Bharatpur product pipeline Mathura - Tundla product pipeline Chennai - Trichy - Madurai product pipeline Chennai - Bangalore product pipeline Chennai ATF pipeline Bangalore ATF pipeline Kolkata ATF pipeline Paradip - Raipur - Ranchi product pipeline Jaipur Panipat Naphtha Pipeline Paradip - Hyderabad product pipeline Paradip-Haldia-Barauni-Motihari LPG Pipeline Paradip-Somnathpur-Haldia Product Pipeline

Foreign subsidiaries Subsidiaries include: IndianOil (Mauritius) Limited IOC Middle East FZE, UAE Lanka IOC PLC, Sri Lanka IOC Sweden AB, Sweden IOCL (USA) Inc., USA IndOil Global B.V. Netherlands IOCL Singapore Pte. Ltd.

Employees

As On 31 March 2024, IOC's Regular Employee Strength Stands At 30,321. Executives Account For 18,570, non-Executives Account For 11,751. The attrition rate in Indian Oil is around 1.5%. The company spent ₹96.57 billion on employee benefits during the FY 2016–17.

Listing and shareholding

Indian Oil's equity shares are listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India.

As of September 2018, it was owned 51% by the Government of India (through the President of India), and 43% by other entities. The latter included corporate bodies (20%), ONGC (14%), LIC (6%), Foreign portfolio investors (6%), Oil India Limited (5%) and Indian Mutual funds (4%).

This was similar to its shareholding in 2017. As of 31 December 2017, the Promoters Government of India held approx. 56.98% of the shares in Indian Oil Corporation. The public held the rest of the shares – 43.02%. This includes Mutual Fund Companies, Foreign Portfolio Investors, Financial Institutions/ Banks, Insurance Companies, Individual Shareholders and Trusts. IOCL's Market cap as of December 2022 was Rs. 1,10,075.05 crore.

Shareholders (as on 31 March 2020) Shareholding Promoter Group (President of India)51.50% Central Government 0.11%Foreign Institutional Investors 5.81%Mutual Funds4.66%General Public 6.01%Financial Institutions 8.32%Others 23.59% Total100.0%

Strategic partnerships IOC Phinergy Pvt Ltd Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) buys a stake in Phinergy (Israel) for manufacturing, development, and sale of aluminum-air batteries (Al-Air batteries) for electric vehicles. This joint venture is ready to facilitate the development of Al-Air technology by intending to set up a factory in India.

Competition Indian Oil Corporation has two major domestic competitors – Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum – and both are state-controlled, like Indian Oil Corporation. Major private competitors include – Reliance Petroleum, Nayara Energy and Shell.

Oil Industry Development Board India has begun the development of a strategic crude oil reserve sized at , enough for three weeks of consumption. Petroleum stocks have been transferred from the Indian Oil Corporation to the Oil Industry Development Board (OIDB). The OIDB then created the Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd (ISPRL) to serve as the controlling government agency for the strategic reserve.

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