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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