Petrol stations in India

Indian Oil Petrol Station in Derabassi, India
An Essar Oil Petrol Station in Khammam, Telangana

India has approx 45,000 petrol stations as of March 2012. Almost 16,000 of these belong to Indian Oil (IOCL), 5,000 each to Bharat Petroleum (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL). IOCL has more numbers of Petrol Stations than whole of Canada or UK. The Punjab state of India has approx 700 number of Petrol Stations or Retail Outlets as discussed in official language. The state of Haryana has more than 500 Petrol Stations alone. A lot of Auto LPG Stations and CNG stations have been planned due to high crude prices.

M/s Reliance Industries Ltd, M/s Essar Oil /Essar Retail, M/s Shell India[1] and M/s ONGC have also opened Petrol Stations in India. The Oil stations opened by M/s Reliance and M/s Essar Oil have been closed on date because of wide Price differential between the fuelcost at state run companies stations and the privately owned stations. Shell currently has 74 petrol stations in India.[2]

Essar has 1278 petrol stations in India which are supplied with petrol and diesel from its 280,000 barrels per day (45,000 m3/d) refinery in Vadinar, Gujarat.[3]

M/s Indraprastha Gas Limited has started exclusive CNG fuel stations in India particularly in Delhi, capital city of India. In recent years, state oil marketing companies have started rural petrol stations which are established in the interior villages,are meant to help the agriculturists and are constructed with minimum of investments. These stations sell Pesticides, seeds, Lanterns etc. which are the specific requirements of the Farmers besides Petrol and Diesel.

Shell Petrol Station in Bangalore.

The details of the Petrol Stations owned by various companies in different states of India are as given below (As on 30 September 2008) :

Oil Company/State/UT IOCL HPCL BPCL Others RIL/Essar Oil/Shell/ONGC
Punjab 1539 300 200 50
Haryana 888 250 200 50
Andaman and Nicobar Islands 7 - - -
Andhra 876 434 - -
Arunachal Pradesh 66 - - -
Assam 634 - - -
Bihar 784 - - -
Chandigarh 18 - - -
Chhattisgarh 236 - - -
Daman & Diu 14 - - -
Delhi 90 - - -
Dadra and Nagar Haveli 11 - - -
Gujarat 1274 269[4] - -
Goa 11[5] 27[6] 22[7] -
Himachal Pradesh 150 - - -
Jharkhand 348 - - -
Jammu & Kashmir 187 - 1 Speed way fuel care -
Karnataka 1169 - - 50
Kerala 829 - - -
Maharashtra 1242 - - -
Meghalaya 109 - - -
Manipur 34 - - -
Madhya Pradesh 854 - - -
Mizoram 28 - - -
Nagaland 52 - - -
Orissa 533 - - -
Puducherry 50 - - -
Rajasthan 1296 - - -
Sikkim 45 - - -
Tamil Nadu 933 87 - -
Telangana 349 131 - -
Tripura 53 - - -
Uttarakhand 331 - - -
Uttar Pradesh 3038 - - -
West Bengal 828 - - -

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