The Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) will invest ₹2 lakh crore in the next five to seven years in expansion projects to maintain a leadership position, chairman Sanjiv Singh said. It plans to almost double its annual refining capacity to 150 million tonnes, expand retailing network, jack up petrochemical production capacity and produce more crude oil and gas, he said.
"Besides the focus on refinery expansions, new technologies for clean fuels and enhanced outputs, and refinery-petrochemicals integration, Indian Oil is aggressively leveraging its R&D expertise to move into horizon technologies like 2G and 3G ethanol, bio-fuels, coal gasification, H-CNG, hydrogen fuel cells, battery technologies etc," Singh said in the firm's latest annual report.The Indian Oil Corporation will invest ₹2 lakh crore in the next five to seven years in expansion projects to maintain a leadership position, chairman Sanjiv Singh said. It plans to almost double its annual refining capacity to 150 million tonnes, expand retailing network, jack up petrochemical production capacity and produce more crude oil and gas, he said.#
The company is India's largest oil refiner with a group refining capacity of 80.7 million tonnes per annum.
IOC wants to raise petrochemical production capacity to 13 million tonnes from the current 3.15 million tonnes. It is expanding the Panipat naphtha cracking capacity and plans to set up new chemical projects in Gujarat, Paradip and Panipat.
The company is also looking at rapid expansion in natural gas retailing by investing ₹10,000 crore over the next eight years, the annual report said.
IOC, which now has city gas license to retail gas in 40 cities, sold 3.96 million tonnes of natural gas in 2018-19. It wants to "triple current market share in gas business" and expand its presence in city gas to 60 geographical areas from current 40,” the report said.
It wants to expand its presence in upstream oil and gas exploration and production by investing in oil-rich countries in the Middle East and Central Asia and acquiring producing assets.
Its stakes in oil and gas fields in 10 countries such as Russia, UAE, the USA and Venezuela, currently give 4.39 million tonnes and the plan is to raise this to 7 million tonnes by 2023-24 and further to 11 million tonnes by 2030, the annual report said.
While the continuing expansion of its petrol pump and LPG distribution agencies, the firm will focus on retailing in rural markets to expand its marketing. It will automate and modernise fuel stations as well as set up electric vehicles charging stations.
IOC said it also plans to increase its overseas footprint to 8 per cent of turnover with additional regional hubs in South Africa and Nigeria and agents/distributors in 20 countries to scout for new business. (DS)
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