BPCL Purchases Shaheen, Umm Shaif, Qua Iboe

Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) has purchased three crude grades in its latest tender for August loadings. The BPCL purchased Qatari Al Shaheen, Nigerian Qua Iboe and United Arab Emirates'' Umm Shaif crude. BPCL late last month purchased 1 million barrels of Libyan Essider crude and 500,000 barrels of Umm Shaif crude for July loadings. BPCL operates a 240,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery in Mumbai as well as its 150,000 bpd refinery in the southern Indian state of Kerala, run by subsidiary Kochi Refineries Ltd.