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New Delhi/Bengaluru: Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) on Thursday reported a fifteen.6% upward thrust in the March sector internet earnings on returned of better margins on turning crude oil into gas.
net earnings of Rs.1,353 crore in January-March was 15.6% better than Rs.1,a hundred and seventy crorenet earnings in the same period a year ago, the business enterprise said in a assertion.
MRPL made $8.24 on turning every barrel of crude oil into fuels like petrol and diesel, in preference to a gross refining margin (GRM) of $6.ninety seven in keeping with barrel in fourth zone of the previous 2014-15 monetary.
“The development in GRM is mainly due to products like polypropylene and pet coke generated out of the new segment-III devices and increase in throughput,” the declaration stated.
Turnover turned into better at Rs.13,477 crore inside the fourth area of 2015-16 financial year as compared to Rs.13,156 crore. The organization grew to become four.fifty two million tonnes of crude oil into gas within the fourth sector, up from 4.12 million throughput in the equal length a year in the past.
For the entire monetary year ended 31 March 2016, MRPL published a net income of Rs.1,148 crore on a turnover of Rs.50,864 crore. It had a internet loss of Rs.1,712 crore on a turnover of Rs.sixty two,412 crorewithin the preceding economic yr. Exports rose forty five% to Rs.22,790 crore.
MRPL geared up to clean oil dues to Iran
MRPL on Thursday said it is prepared to clear its dues for oil import from Iran as soon as the banking channels are available. “Now that the sanctions on Iran had been absolutely lifted, we are hoping theremay be clarity on price channel, and it would be looked after out very shortly, and as quickly as banking channels are available, we are able to be making the payment,” MRPL coping with director H. Kumarinformed journalists.
Kumar was responding to a query on the issue of clearing $6.five billion of oil dues to Iran with the aid ofIndian refiners which includes MRPL.
earlier, the payment have been getting deferred due to unavailability of banking channels because ofwestern sanctions on Iran, Kumar stated.
“for the duration of the sanction period, the arrangement turned into the refiners were paying forty five% of the value in Indian rupees and now the pending 55% of the cost is to be paid in euros. because there had been no banking channels available in advance, the fee become getting deferred,” he stated.
And relying upon RBI clearances, the refiners had been making payments to Iran for exporting crude oil to India, he introduced.
