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You may approach our Customer Service Cell operating at our Retail Regional Offices across the country. Address & telephone numbers of the Regional Offices are available on this website.

HPCL has its competition with:

  1. Reliance
  2. IOC
  3. BPCL
  4. Essar Oil
  5. MRPL

It’s an oil and natural gas company selling Oil, natural gas, petroleum, lubricant, and petrochemical.

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited is an Indian state-owned oil and natural gas company with its headquarters at Mumbai, Maharashtra. It has about 25% market-share in India among public-sector companies (PSUs) and a strong marketing infrastructure. The Government of India owns 51.11% shares in HPCL and others are distributed amongst financial institutes, public and other investors. The company is ranked 367th on the Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s biggest corporations as of 2016.For the last 40 years and more; Hindustan Petroleum has meant different things to different people. Confident of creating a Future full of Energy.HPCL operates two major refineries producing a wide variety of petroleum fuels and specialties, one in Mumbai (West Coast) of 6.5 million metric tons per annum (MMTPA) capacity and the other in Visakhapatnam, (East Coast) with a capacity of 8.3 MMTPA. Some it represents an abundant supply of Petrol and Diesel. For others it stands for the easy availability of LPG and lubricants. Thousands of others see in it an inexhaustible reservoir of Kerosene and other petroleum products for meeting their energy needs.

HPCL was incorporated in 1974 after the takeover and merger of erstwhile Esso Standard and Lube India Limited by the Esso (Acquisition of Undertakings in India) Act 1974.

The location for setting up of dealership is decided by Oil Companies after studying feasibility and the locations are included in the Expion Plan earmarking the reservation category for each location. Thereafter, HPCL releases advertisement for the locations identified. The candidates meeting the eligibility criteria mentioned in the advertisement can make application on the prescribed format. Eligible candidates are called for interview by Selection Committee and finalizing the dealer selection. Preference is given to the candidates who are willing to trfer land on long-term lease /sale to HPCL.

Application can be made only in the prescribed format for the locations advertised by HPCL. Completed applications have to be submitted to the concerned Regional Office within the time limit as stipulated in the advertisement. Unless advertisement for a particular location is released, applications are not accepted by HPCL.

HPCL was in recent news as The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has issued a notice to Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. HPCL on the allegations of polluting a water body near its terminal in the industrial area near Hassan. A patch of a lake near Dodda Basavanahalli caught fire on Monday following oil wastes released from the terminal collected in the water body. Following the incident, residents of Dodda Basavanahalli blamed HPCL for the fire in the lake and demanded action against the unit. Senior officers of the district administration visited the spot.

HPCL works under The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.

The Company is headquartered at Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

You may approach the Customer Service Cells operating at our Retail Regional Offices across the country.

After identifying the location for setting up retail outlet/SKO-LDO dealership, HPCL releases advertisement in leading newspaper (one English and one Hindi/vernacular) inviting applications from candidates belonging to the category for which the location is reserved. The eligibility criteria, terms & conditions and procedures are described in the advertisement. After scrutiny, the eligible candidates are called for interview by a Selection Committee. Selection Committee announces name of the selected candidate on the close of the interview.

Mr. Mukesh Kumar Surana has taken charge as Chairman & Managing Director – Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited effective April 01, 2016.

Capital investment required for setting up of a Petrol Pump outlet varies from location to location depending on cost of land, size of plot and facilities required to be developed to meet the requirement of consumers in the trading area of the outlet.

HPCL has got 41 Retail Regional Offices across the country. Please contact the nearest Regional Office for any further information on the Retail Business activities of HPCL.

HPCL has its refineries at:

  1. Mumbai Refinery — 6.5 million metric tons.
  2. Visakhapatnam Refinery — 8.3 MMT at Visakhapatnam.
  3. Mangalore Refinery Pvt. Ltd. — 9.69 MMT at Mangalore, Karnataka.
  4. Guru Gobind Singh Refinery — 9 MMT at Bathinda, Punjab.
  5. Barmer Refinery — 9 MMT capacity.