Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Indian Oil, BPCL Fall On Report That They May Buy Stake In GAIL — Shares of Indian Oil and Bharat Petroleum fell as much as 4.7 percent and 4.1 percent each respectively as both the companies may buy 26 percent stake each in gas utility GAIL (India) Ltd., paying the government over Rs 20,000 crore each to become integrated energy firms, news agency Press Trust of India reported.
The report added that following Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s February 2017 Budget announcement of creating integrated oil majors, IOC and BPCL had submitted separate proposals to buy the government’s 54.89 percent stake in India’s biggest gas marketing and transportation firm.
