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Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd reported a consolidated profit of Rs 1,001.59 crore for the October-December 2025 quarter, driven by sustained operational excellence, the company said. The city-headquartered company had posted a net profit of Rs 20.78 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous financial year. For the nine-month period ending December 31, 2025, CPCL's net profit grew to Rs 1,680.85 crore, compared with a net loss of Rs 255.83 crore in the year-ago period, the group company of IndianOil Corporation Ltd said in a press release. CPCL achieved a crude throughput of 2.79 million metric tonne during the October-December quarter, up from 2.55 million metric tonne in the same period last year. "This translates to a capacity utilisation of 105 per cent, underscoring efficient plant operations and high reliability," the release said. The quarter's financial results reflected robust physical performance and improved refining margins, the company added. Consolidated
IndianOil Group company Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd coinciding with its Diamond Jubilee year has embarked on a journey to set up retail outlets to sell petrol and diesel, a top official said on Tuesday. The company, which has been producing fuel at its refineries located near the city, has earmarked Rs 400 crore as capital expansion towards this cause. "We are embarking on a journey to set up retail outlets. Long back about 20 years back, CPCL had one standalone outlet in Sriperumbudur. Now, we are again venturing into this strategic growth path. So this is one exciting journey we are taking now. We want to see that during this Diamond Jubilee year, we will be able to establish some diamond jubilee outlets that is a target we are working on," CPCL Managing Director H Shankar told reporters. Declining to elaborate on the number of outlets planned initially, he said during the Diamond Jubilee celebrations the company would be in a position to launch the first round of retail ...
Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd on Friday reported a 25 per cent drop in its March quarter net profit as refining margins fell on softening global oil rates. Consolidated net profit was at Rs 469.93 crore in January-March (fourth quarter of 2024-25 fiscal year) compared with Rs 627.89 crore earnings in the same period of last financial year, according to a stock exchange filing by the company. Revenue from operations was almost flat at Rs 20,580.65 crore. For the full fiscal (April 2024 to March 2025), CPCL's net profit plunged to Rs 173.53 crore from Rs 2,711.25 crore in 2023-24. CPCL said it earned USD 4.22 on turning every barrel of crude oil into fuel in FY25, down from USD 8.64 per barrel gross refining margin in the previous year. The firm, which is a subsidiary of state-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), processed 2.974 million tonnes of crude oil in Q4, slightly lower than 3.087 million tonnes processed in January-March 2024. In full 2024-25 fiscal, crude oil processing