Tag: Indian oil

Indian Oil provides healthy food to school children in Rajasthan

The PSU, through Akshaya Patra Foundation (an NGO) provided two food delivery vehicles in the state of Rajasthan.

February 18, 2023

Aluminium-based air batteries from IOC

Indian Oil has declared 2023 as the year of strengthening the green resolve. With this theme in target the IOC has taken a resolve to achieve a 20 per cent ethanol blending target throughout the nation by 2025.   

February 4, 2023

Indian Oil embarks on intensified TB elimination project in UP, Chhattisgarh

Historic MoU signed in the presence of Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri and Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Dr Mansukh Mandaviya

January 2, 2023

Centre approves one time grant of Rs 22,000 cr to oil marketing companies

It will help the three OMCs, namely Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum, and Hindustan Petroleum, to recover the expenses borne by them for selling domestic LPG or cooking gas between June 2020 and June 2022.

October 12, 2022

IndianOil launches defrosting and de-icing fluid for snow clad areas

IndianOil’s SERVO DEFROST not only protects the windshields from ice formation but is also non-reactive to rubber parts/plastic parts on the windshields. It is also non-corrosive to any metal parts, thus providing essential visibility to drivers, without causing any damage to other parts.

February 3, 2022

Indian Oil lists foreign currency bonds on IFSC exchanges

The platforms provide an efficient international listing process to issuers with minimum turnaround time and investment opportunities for investors from across the world.

September 2, 2021

FASTag to enhance contactless refueling at Indian Oil fuel outlets

This comes when the country’ petrol and diesel consumption is expected to grow by 14% and 10% respectively in FY22, according to rating agency ICRA.

July 19, 2021

Petrol price crosses Rs 80 per litre in Delhi for first time since 2018, Rs 87 in Mumbai

Petrol price at retail outlets in the national capital hit Rs 80.13 per litre from Rs 79.92 while the diesel increased to Rs 80.19 a litre from Rs 80.02.

June 26, 2020

Diesel hits record high, petrol up 51 paise as fuel price hike continues

In other metropolitan cities, like Kolkata and Mumbai petrol prices were at Rs 80.62, Rs 82.27 respectively.

June 20, 2020

Going up! Petrol, diesel prices rising as India opens

1. These rise of prices in India is backed by the rise of international crude oil rates. 2. Government is collecting approximately 270 per cent taxes on the base price of petrol and 256 per cent in the case of diesel. 3. This steep rise in excise duty has resulted without resultant increase in petrol and diesel prices, had substantially brought down its marketing margins.

June 11, 2020

Bengal sees most peaceful polls, said Guv

This comes amidst the alleged assault on SFI activists by ABVP at Viswa Bharati University; Guv had earlier slammed state over poor law & order

January 17, 2020

World’s highest LPG bottling plant of Indian Oil gets connected with solar power

With Leh being cut off for six months in a year due to heavy snow and demand rising exponentially in the winter season, there was a need to augment its storage capacity.

October 15, 2018

Fuel of the Future

Biofuels in India are of strategic importance as they augur well with the ongoing initiatives of the Narendra Modi government such as Make in India, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Skill Development and offer great opportunity to integrate with the ambitious targets of doubling of farmers’ income, import reduction and employment generation. The oil marketing companies blame...

October 6, 2018

Passengers refuse to deplane, Air Asia leaves them in the cold!

The incident occurred on a flight from Kolkata to Bagdogra, when the passengers had got into an altercation with plane staff over the decision of deplaning them after the flight was delayed by over four hours.

June 21, 2018

70K LPG connections to be distributed in 667 LPG panchayats on Ujjwala Diwas

An additional 70,000 LPG connections under PMUY will be distributed across 667 LPG panchayats in Odisha on a single day of Ujjwala Diwas on Friday. Addressing a pre-event press conference here on Thursday, Pritish Bharat, Chief General Manager, Indian Oil, provided details of the programme in the presence of Prakash Sahoo, Chief Manager LPG Indian...

April 20, 2018

Stricter fuel norms for Delhi from April

Taking into account the severe pollution levels in Delhi, the Centre has decided to roll out stricter fuel norms from April, two years earlier than scheduled, in the national capital. With this, all new vehicles in Delhi will have to be BS-VI compliant. This is likely to make the cars, SUVs and other vehicles more...

November 15, 2017

Trekking team stranded on trek route to Kedarnath

A trekking team, comprising senior officials of the Indian Oil, Delhi government and CPWD, have been stranded in the snowbound Vanpatiya area in Rudraprayag district from three days. The eleven-member team got stranded during its expedition from Badrinath to Kedarnath. The matter came to light last evening after two members managed to come down at...

September 27, 2017