NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp Ltd posted a 61 percent jump in second-quarter profit on Saturday, with higher crude oil prices helping it to beat forecasts.
ONGC's net profit stood at 82.65 billion rupees ($1.14 billion) in the quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with 51.3 billion rupees a year earlier, the company said in a stock exchange filing.
Analysts on average had expected a profit of 68.61 billion rupees, according to Refinitiv data.
Income from operations rose by 47.5 percent to 279.89 billion rupees, ONGC said.
($1 = 72.4350 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Tanvi Mehta in Bengaluru and Aditya Kalra in New Delhi; Editing by Alexander Smith)
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