Indian refiners' May crude processing edges up 0.4% from a year earlier

Oil India

26/06/2025 09:15

June 26 (Reuters) - Indian refiners' throughput in May rose 0.4% year-on-year to 5.47 million barrels per day (23.11 million metric tons), provisional government data showed on Thursday.

Refinery throughput in April was at 5.25 million barrels per day (21.49 million metric tons).

India's fuel demand in May rose to its highest in more than a year, while crude oil imports reached a record high of 23.32 million metric tons.

The country is the world's third-biggest oil importer and consumer.

"What drives refinery runs is domestic demand and refined product net exports. Oil demand was modestly up in May versus one year ago and refined product exports lower versus last year, so I guess that is the reason for the modest change," said Giovanni Staunovo, an analyst at UBS.

     The share of Russian oil in India's imports in May declined marginally as refiners cut purchases from Moscow by 15.7% to 1.7 million barrels per day (bpd), tanker data from trade and industry sources showed.

India's Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd MRPL.NS shut its 144,000 bpd crude distillation unit in mid-May, according to a refinery source and four traders who confirmed the development in early May.

REFINERY PRODUCTION IN TERMS OF CRUDE THROUGHPUT (in 1,000 tons):

April 2025
May 2025
May 2024
April-May 2025
Actual
Actual
Actual
Actual
IOCL, Barauni
476
572
549
1,047
IOCL, Bongaigaon
230
259
60
489
IOCL, Digboi
37
47
65
84
IOCL, Gujarat
1,068
990
1,326
2,059
IOCL, Guwahati
100
111
111
212
IOCL, Haldia
701
750
690
1,451
IOCL, Mathura
825
883
840
1708
IOCL, Panipat
1,322
1,333
1,269
2,655
IOCL, Paradip
1,362
1,415
1,155
2,777
BPCL, Bina
653
671
661
1,324
BPCL, Kochi
1,512
1,476
1,508
2,988
BPCL, Mumbai
1,182
1,284
1,284
2,466
HPCL, Mumbai
831
743
816
1574
HPCL, Visakh
1,412
1,444
1,354
2,856
CPCL, Manali
930
1,040
1,033
1,971
NRL, Numaligarh
277
272
277
549
MRPL, Mangalore
1,512
1,169
1,593
2,680
ONGC, Tatipaka
5
6
6
11
HMEL, Bhatinda
721
1,113
1,111
1,835
RIL, Jamnagar
1,551
2,897
2,933
4,447
RIL, SEZ
3,113
2,876
2,657
5,989
Nayara, Vadinar
1,665
1,762
1,727
3,427
TOTAL
21,486
23,113
23,026
44,599

Source: Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

IOC: Indian Oil Corp IOC.NS

BPCL: Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd BPCL.NS

HPCL: Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd HPCL.NS

CPCL: Chennai Petroleum Corp Ltd CHPC.NS

MRPL: Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd MRPL.NS

Reliance Industries Ltd RELI.NS

Please note that CPCL's CBR refinery is de-commissioned under shutdown due to limitation in meeting required product specifications with the existing configuration.

 (Reporting by Anmol Choubey in Bengaluru; Editing by Sonia Cheema)

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