{"id":6338,"date":"2026-05-28T07:18:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=6338"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:18:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:18:03","slug":"fuel-price-hike-and-omc-profits-are-indias-oil-firms-really-making-windfall-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=6338","title":{"rendered":"Fuel price hike and OMC profits: Are India\u2019s oil firms really making windfall gains?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent fuel price hikes have ignited debate over oil marketing companies&#8217; (OMCs) profits amid the Middle East crisis. Despite a reported Rs 77,821 crore profit for FY26, a closer look reveals thin margins, past losses, and a lag in reflecting current crude price impacts.  These profits are crucial for investments and national energy security.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent fuel price hikes have ignited debate over oil marketing companies&#8217; (OMCs) profits amid the Middle East crisis. Despite a reported Rs 77,821 crore profit for FY26, a closer look <a href=\"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=6338\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}