The earnings rose as the company got $112.72 per barrel price for crude oil it sold in the quarter as opposed to $67.15 a barrel rate realised in the same period last year
Move to benefit RIL, ONGC and Oil India
While the underneath trend seems positive, Reliance, ONGC and Oil India need to sustain above the major support levels for further gains.
Centre, on Wednesday, eliminated a levy on gasoline exports and cut windfall taxes on other fuels less than three weeks after they were imposed
Oil India was down 8 per cent at Rs 176, while ONGC shed 6 per cent in traes on Wednesday.
The bulk of the earnings reduction over the past two months for the Nifty-50 index, according to KIE, has come from the government's decision to levy new taxes
Brokerage firm Motilal Oswal reiterates its BUY rating with revised target prices of Rs 171 and Rs 364 for ONGC and Oil India, respectively.
MRPL, Chennai Petroleum and Hindustan Oil Exploration soared around 8 per cent each. Oil explorers - Oil India and ONGC also logged smart gains in an otherwise weak market.
Oil prices tumbled about 5 per cent to a three-week low on Friday, as investors feared that interest rate hikes from major central banks could slow the global economy and cut demand for energy.
Oil India is well placed to benefit from rising oil and gas prices and high gross refining margins, analysts said.
Oil prices rose more than $2 in early trade on Monday after Saudi Arabia raised prices sharply for is crude sales in July
26 companies submit 106 bids in DSF - III for which the last date of submission was May 31
Analysts remain bullish on prospects of the company due to increase in crude price realisation and improvement in domestic gas price realisation.
Reversal in price trends, policy measures such as windfall tax by the government and fall in refining margins are among key downside risks
ONGC reported bumper profits in Q4 (when international prices soared to a near 14-year high of $139 per barrel) and record earnings in 2021-22, triggering talks of the govt slapping a windfall tax
Net profit at Rs 1,630.01 crore in January-March was almost double of Rs 847.56 crore profit in the same period of last year, OIL Director (Finance) Harish Madhav told reporters
A case was registered under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology Act, 2000
Indian companies' value of investments in Russia's oil and gas fields could be impaired as import bans and international sanctions may constraint future cash flow generating capacity: Moody's
CLOSING BELL: JSW Steel, Titan Company, SBI Life, RIL, Kotak Bank, Tata Consumer Products, Tata Steel, Nestle India, and Eicher Motors were the other notable gainers
Government headhunter PESB has picked a non-upstream executive, Ranjit Rath to head India's second largest state oil and gas producer, Oil India Ltd.