Govt asks refiners to maximise LPG production, OMCs to prioritise supply to domestic consumers

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The Union authorities  has asked lipid  selling  companies to prioritise LPG proviso   to home  consumers. File.

The Union authorities has asked lipid selling companies to prioritise LPG proviso to home consumers. File. | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal

The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) has asked lipid refining companies to maximise accumulation of liquified petroleum state (LPG) and marque it disposable to the 3 nationalist assemblage entities — IndianOil, Hindustan Petroleum and Bharat Petroleum — to beryllium sold to consumers for home depletion only.

“All lipid refining companies operating successful India shall maximise and guarantee that propane and butane streams produced, recovered, fractioned oregon different disposable with them are utilised for accumulation of LPG and marque it disposable to the 3 nationalist assemblage lipid selling companies,” an bid issued connected March 5 read, adding, “All nationalist assemblage OMCs shall guarantee that LPG truthful produced is supplied/marketed solely to consumers of home LPG only.”

The bid further seeks that lipid refining companies “shall not divert, utilise, process, crack, person oregon different employment propane oregon butane streams for manufacture of petrochemical products oregon different specified downstream derivatives.”

For context, the cooking substance is formed of a operation of propane and butane.

Overall, the bid seeks to re-prioritise allocation of propane and butane streams for utilisation successful accumulation of the cooking state to safeguard the home consumers amidst a planetary substance proviso paradigm emanating from the ongoing struggle successful West Asia.

Published - March 06, 2026 12:34 p.m. IST

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