HPCL makes its first US oil purchase: Chairman M K Surana

NEW DELHI: Hindustan Petroleum Corp has made its first purchase of US oil, buying high sulphur crude Mars in a tender, company chairman M K Surana said on Monday.

Earlier Indian Oil Corp and Bharat Petroleum Corp , both state refiners, had purchased the US oil through tenders.

HPCL has bought 1 million barrels of Mars oil from trader Trafigura for delivery in December at the southern Indian port of Vizag, he said.