Healthy refining, retail margins in Apr-Jun qtr set to boost oil marketing companies' profits
The retail margins on petrol and diesel jumped sharply in the April-June quarter over the previous quarter. This coupled with gross refining margins of $7.7-9 per barrel (net of windfall tax, estimated inventory loss and Russian crude cost-benefit) would help boost the profit of the three state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs), ICICI Securities said.