据能源信息统计10月3日消息，印度政府正在考虑将印度第二大炼油和燃料零售公司巴拉特石油公司(BPCL)私有化，印度政府持有该公司53.3%的股份。巴拉特石油公司在孟买、喀拉拉邦、中央邦和阿萨姆邦经营着4家炼油厂。此外，它还经营着大约1.5万个加油站(占印度加油站总数的23%)和大约6000个LPG分销商(占总数的25%)。
巴拉特石油目前的估值约合143亿美元，将公司的部分股权出售给战略合作伙伴(私人公司和/或外国公司)，可能有助于政府完成其约合147亿美元资产剥离计划的一部分。然而，潜在的私有化必须得到议会的批准；2003年，印度最高法院裁定，只有在议会修改了之前将巴拉特石油和印度斯坦石油公司(HPCL)收归国有的法律之后，政府才可以将这两家公司私有化。
裘寅 编译自 enerdata
原文如下：
Indian government plans to privatise oil refiner and fuel retailer BPCL
The government of India is considering privatising Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), the second largest oil refining and fuel retailing company in the country, in which the state owns a 53.3% stake. BPCL operates four refineries at Mumbai, Kochi (Kerala), Bina (Madhya Pradesh) and Numaligarh (Assam). Moreover, it operates around 15,000 gas stations (23% of the total oil stations in India) and around 6,000 LPG distributors (25% of the total).
BPCL is currently valued at INR 1,020bn (US$14.3bn) and the sale of an interest in the company to a strategic partner (private company and/or foreign company) could help the government meet a part of its INR 1,050bn (US$14.7bn) divestment programme. However, the potential privatisation will have to be approved by the Parliament; in 2003, the Supreme Court ruled that the government could privatise BPCL and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL)