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India’s largest refiner Indian Oil Corp is setting up an office in Singapore that will handle crude oil purchases and the sales of oil products from its refineries later this year, trade sources said on Friday. The state-run company is part of a growing group of refiners in Asia that have set up offices in Singapore’s oil hub to keep closer tabs on the market and react more quickly to changes.
IOCL Singapore – as the Singapore unit will be named – will initially have two staff to handle some of the crude purchases for its refineries, said the sources, who declined to be named because they are not authorized to speak to the media. IOC, which accounts for over a third of India’s 4.6 million barrels per day (bpd) of refining capacity, did not respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
