The Indian company was the only one to bid on chartering a production storage and offloading vessel, known as an FPSO, for Petrobras' Barracuda and Caratinga fields
The larger shipments will likely ease downward pressure on an oversupplied Asian diesel market and create a price floor for the current market, the sources said
"We have two groups of Asian countries that we're interacting very much right now and we're building relationships right now - Gulf countries, India and China," he said
Brazil's Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) owns a 75 per cent stake in the block and the rest 25 per cent is held by OVL, it will raise its stake in the block
IOCL's pact with Petrobras was signed during petroleum secretary Pankaj Jain's visit to Brazil last week. Petrobras will supply 1.7 million tonnes per annum to IOCL
Brazil's government has appointed former Petrobras executive Rodolfo Landim to chair the state-controlled oil producer's board, the company said in a filing on Saturday night
Shares in state electricity company Eletrobras also plunged on Monday after Bolsonaro said it would be the next sector in which the government would "stick its finger"
Roberto Castello Branco was appointed CEO of Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as the state-controlled firm is known, when Bolsonaro took office at the start of 2019