Petrol stations in India

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

India has approx 56,190 petrol stations as of March 2016. Almost 25,000 of these belong to Indian Oil (IOCL), 13,000 each to Bharat Petroleum (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL)[1]. IOCL has more numbers of Petrol Stations than whole of Canada or UK. The Punjab state of India has approx 3300 number of Petrol Stations or Retail Outlets as discussed in official language. The state of Haryana has more than 2500 Petrol Stations alone. A lot of Auto LPG Stations and CNG stations have been planned due to high crude prices[2].

M/s Reliance Industries Ltd, M/s Essar Oil /Essar Retail, M/s Shell India[3] 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.[4]

As of october 2009 Essar has 1600 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.[5]

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 31 March 2016)[6] :

Oil Company/State/UT IOCL HPCL BPCL Others RIL/Essar Oil/Shell/ONGC
Andhra Pradesh 1199 929 720 156
Arunachal Pradesh 48 0 7 16
Assam 503 91 129 65
Bihar 1351 475 610 75
Chhattisgarh 481 329 275 23
Delhi 189 97 107 0
Goa 31 36 47 0
Gujarat 1274 738 771 601
Haryana 1334 666 385 151
Himachal Pradesh 218 109 62 7
Jammu & Kashmir 221 130 134 0
Jharkhand 496 265 319 71
Karnataka 1803 888 966 179
Kerala 885 587 457 80
Madhya Pradesh 1295 814 917 243
Maharashtra 1846 1542 1678 353
Manipur 69 0 12 4
Meghalaya 116 23 39 12
Mizoram 30 3 2 1
Nagaland 45 3 9 12
Orissa 748 314 414 84
Punjab 1685 878 610 143
Rajasthan 1630 977 819 310
Sikkim 16 7 23 1
Tamil Nadu 1991 1158 1317 236
Telangana 911 644 565 108
Tripura 62 0 2 3
Uttar Pradesh 3394 1374 1313 535
Uttarakhand 242 166 114 29
West Bengal 1119 488 563 74
Andaman & Nicobar 10 0 0 0
Chandigarh 20 11 10 0
Dadra & Nagar Haveli 11 11 4 5
Daman & Diu 11 10 7 3
Lakshadweep 0 0 0 0
Puducherry 79 39 32 6
Grand Total 25363 13802 13439 3586

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