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BPCL: Out of the frying pan, into the fire?
posted by Vivek Sharma
19 Jul 2008, 15:45, | permalink | comments
labels: public sectorenergy/oilbranding/marketing
Suppose you are managing a business. The times are good for the industry as product prices are at record highs. Your domestic and global competitors are raking in so much profits that politicians are ...

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Government’s energy priorities
posted by Vivek Sharma
29 Jun 2008, 20:26, | permalink | comments
labels: governmentenergy/oil
With oil prices above $140 per barrel, total under-recoveries from retail fuel sales for this financial year is now estimated at Rs.3 lakh crore. If you are wondering why the government is not aggress...

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Ahluwalia remains an optimist
posted by Vivek Sharma
28 Jun 2008, 08:33, | permalink | comments
labels: governmentenergy/oilpoliticseconomy
These are tough times and most of us expect it will only get tougher in future. Not so if you are Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Planning Commission deputy chairman. In an interview earlier this week, he ins...

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Pushing premium branded petrol
posted by Vivek Sharma
21 May 2008, 16:29, | permalink | comments
labels: public sectorgovernmentenergy/oilbranding/marketing
I first saw it in Bangalore, a couple of weeks back. Some of the HPCL outlets had adorned the regular petrol dispensers with shabbily written ‘No Stock’ boards, while the premium branded petrol was re...

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The true oil subsidy burden
posted by Vivek Sharma
16 Apr 2008, 20:13, | permalink | comments
labels: public sectorgovernmentenergy/oileconomy

Rs640 crore a day, or Rs2,33,600 crore a year – that is what our state owned oil companies will burn in under-recoveries, if crude oil prices remain at the current levels and retail fuel prices are...

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Oil back above $100, but why?
posted by Vivek Sharma
23 Feb 2008, 07:50, | permalink | comments
labels: energy/oilglobal markets

When oil prices first hit the $100 per barrel mark during the first week of January, most oil analysts said the three digit level was unsustainable. Prices promptly corrected to less than $90, as t...

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