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The Punjab state of India has approximately 3,300 petrol stations, and the state of Haryana alone has more than 2,500. Many additional auto LPG and CNG stations have been planned due to high crude prices. [3] Reliance Industries Ltd and BP plc have opened petrol stations as Jio-bp also known as Reliance Petroleum. It has 1427 outlets as of ...
The major oil terminals / depots in India are: Agra Terminal of IOCL; Dhourmui Terminals of IOCL, BPCL and HPCL near Bharatpur; Roorkee Terminal of IOCL;
An HP fueling station in Kapsi, Chhattisgarh HP fuel pump in Coimbatore HP petrol bunk at Basaveshwaranagara, Bangalore. HPCL wholly owns two major refineries in India: [11] one in Mumbai (west coast) with a capacity of 9.5 million tonss per year, and one in Visakhapatnam (east coast) with a capacity of 8.3 million tons per year.
A BPCL petrol filling station . In 1976, the company was nationalized under the Act on the Nationalisation of Foreign Oil companies ESSO (1974), Burma Shell (1976) and Caltex (1977). [8] On 24 January 1976, the Burmah Shell was taken over by the Government of India to form Bharat Refineries Limited.
After discovery of oil in the Assam state of India in late 1880s, the first oil refinery was set up at Digboi. Digboi Refinery was commissioned in 1901. [1] Following is a list of oil refineries in India, per the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India, [2] arranged in decreasing order of their capacity.
Bharat Petroleum — India BP (advertising tagline "Beyond Petroleum"; initials stood for British Petroleum, but with the merger of Amoco in 1998, BP is the actual corporate name) Amoco — United States, was used as a fuel grade until BP brought it back as a fuel brand in 2017
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. [29] 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. [30]
Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Limited (ISPRL) is an Indian company responsible for maintaining the country's strategic petroleum reserves. ISPRL is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Oil Industry Development Board (OIDB), which functions under the administrative control of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas .