Indian Oil Corporation
Indian Oil Corporation Limited, trading as IndianOil, is an Indian multinational oil and gas company under the ownership of the Government of India and administrative control of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. It is a public sector undertaking which is registered in Mumbai and headquartered in New Delhi. It is the largest government-owned oil producer in the country both in terms of capacity and revenue. It has consolidated refining capacity of 80.55MMTPA.
Indian Oil's business interests overlap the entire hydrocarbon value chain, including refining, pipeline, marketing of petroleum products, exploration and production of Petroleum, natural gas and petrochemicals. Indian Oil has ventured into renewable energy and globalisation of downstream operations. It has subsidiaries in Sri Lanka, Mauritius, and the Middle East.
Indian Oil is ranked 94th on the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's biggest corporations as of 2022. As of 31 March 2021, Indian Oil has 31,648 employees, out of which 17,762 are executives and 13,876 non-executives, while 2,776 are women.
History
In May 2018, IOCL became India's most profitable government corporation for the second consecutive year, with a record profit of ₹21,346 crores in 2017–18. In February 2020, the company signed a deal with the Russian oil company Rosneft to buy 140,000 barrels per day of crude in year 2020. By 1 April 2020, IndianOil was in absolute readiness to launch BS-VI fuels in all its retail outlets in Telangana and adopt world-class emission norms.In January 2021, sales were registered at an all-time high of 410,000 barrels of oil per day till 26 January 2021. Delek, QatarEnergy, and Saudi Aramco are its largest business partners, with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and National Iranian Oil Company signing deals to deliver high production output by the end of 2020.
In March 2022, Apollo Hospitals replaced Indian Oil Corporation in Nifty 50 benchmark index.
Controversy
Operations
Business divisions
There are seven major business divisions in the organisation:- Refineries Division
- Pipelines Division
- Marketing Division
- R&D Division
- Petrochemicals Division
- Exploration & Production Division
- Explosives and Cryogenics Division
Products and services
Servo is the lubricants brand under which IOCL operates its lubricant business. Servo is the largest selling lubricant brand in both automotive and industrial segments.
It is said that deals with Royal Dutch Shell and Surgutneftegas and Chevron Corporation have been signed for exclusive business plans for supply in Asia with the Indian Oil Company, which are worth 20 billion dollars per year.
Oil refinery locations
- Barauni Refinery
- Bongaigaon Refinery
- CPCL, Chennai
- CPCL, Narimanam
- Digboi Refinery
- Guwahati Refinery
- Haldia Refinery
- Koyali Refinery
- Mathura Refinery
- Panipat Refinery
- Paradip Refinery
- Gujarat Refinery
Pipelines
- Salaya - Mathura crude oil pipeline
- Mundra - Panipat crude oil pipeline
- Paradip-Haldia-Barauni crude oil pipeline
- Kandla–Bhatinda Oil Pipeline
- Koyali - Mohanpura product pipeline
- Koyali - Ahmedabad product pipeline
- Guwahati - Siliguri product pipeline
- Barauni - Kanpur product pipeline
- Patna-Motihari-Baitalpur Product pipeline
- Haldia - Mourigram - Rajbandh product pipeline
- Haldia - Barauni product pipeline
- Panipat - Jalandhar LPG pipeline
- Dadri - Panipat R-LNG pipeline
- Koyali - Ratlam product pipeline
- Koyali - Dahej/ Hazira product pipeline
- Panipat - Bhatinda product pipeline
- Panipat - Rewari product pipeline
- Panipat - Ambala - Jalandhar product pipeline
- Mathura - Delhi product pipeline
- Mathura - Bharatpur product pipeline
- Mathura - Tundla product pipeline
- Chennai - Trichy - Madurai product pipeline
- Chennai - Bangalore product pipeline
- Chennai ATF pipeline
- Bangalore ATF pipeline
- Kolkata ATF pipeline
- Paradip - Raipur - Ranchi product pipeline
- Jaipur Panipat Naphtha Pipeline
- Paradip - Hyderabad product pipeline
- Paradip-Haldia-Barauni-Motihari LPG Pipeline
- Paradip-Somnathpur-Haldia Product Pipeline
Foreign subsidiaries
- IndianOil Limited
- IOC Middle East FZE, UAE
- Lanka IOC PLC, Sri Lanka
- IOC Sweden AB, Sweden
- IOCL Inc., USA
- IndOil Global B.V. Netherlands
- IOCL Singapore Pte. Ltd.
Employees
Listing and shareholding
Indian Oil's equity shares are listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India.As of September 2018, it was owned 51% by the Government of India, and 43% by other entities. The latter included corporate bodies, ONGC, LIC, Foreign portfolio investors, Oil India Limited and Indian Mutual funds.
This was similar to its shareholding in 2017. As of 31 December 2017, the Promoters Government of India held approx. 56.98% of the shares in Indian Oil Corporation. The public held the rest of the shares – 43.02%. This includes Mutual Fund Companies, Foreign Portfolio Investors, Financial Institutions/ Banks, Insurance Companies, Individual Shareholders and Trusts. IOCL's Market cap as of December 2022 was Rs. 1,10,075.05 crore.
| Shareholders | Shareholding |
| Promoter Group | 51.50% |
| Central Government | 0.11% |
| Foreign Institutional Investors | 5.81% |
| Mutual Funds | 4.66% |
| General Public | 6.01% |
| Financial Institutions | 8.32% |
| Others | 23.59% |
| Total | 100.0% |