{"id":972,"date":"2026-05-13T10:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=972"},"modified":"2026-05-13T10:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:50:12","slug":"indias-hpcl-q4-profit-rises-on-strong-refining-margins-steady-fuel-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s HPCL Q4 profit rises on strong refining margins, steady fuel demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>India\u2019s Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd reported a rise in fourth-quarter profit on Wednesday, helped by stronger refining margins and steady fuel demand.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The state-run refiner logged a net profit of about 49.02 billion rupees ($512.37 million) for the quarter ended March 31, up nearly 46.1% from a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Sale of products rose 4.5% to 1.23 trillion rupees, supported by higher fuel sales volumes.<\/p>\n<p>Gross refining margin-the profit from making refined products from one barrel of oil-climbed to $14.27 per barrel in the quarter, from $8.44 per barrel a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brecorder.com\/news\/40415394\/india-raises-hpcl-rajasthan-refinery-project-cost-to-86-billion\"><strong>India raises HPCL Rajasthan Refinery project cost to $8.6 billion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fuel sales rose 2.4% year-on-year to 13.0 million tonnes, driven by resilient demand for diesel and petrol.<\/p>\n<p>The company declared a dividend of 19.25 rupees per share.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of HPCL were up 4.8% in afternoon trade, having fallen about 23% so far this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd reported a rise in fourth-quarter profit on Wednesday, helped by stronger refining margins and steady fuel demand. The state-run refiner logged a net profit of about 49.02 billion rupees ($512.37 million) for the quarter ended March 31, up nearly 46.1% from a year earlier. Sale of products rose 4.5% to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}