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Trinidad and Tobago in talks with ONGC Videsh, Oil India to refine Venezuelan crude

Oil and Natural Gas is in focus.

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The Caribbean government has proposed that the two Indian oil companies process crude from neighbouring Venezuela at the Guaracara refinery in Pointe-à-Pierre, which forms part of the former Petrotrin complex and is currently under renovation.

Against that, the stock is +1.1% on the day at ₹227.50, and has returned -10.7% over three months. It sits 24% below its 52-week high. The oil & energy sector has moved -5.7% over the same period, so Oil and Natural Gas is running 5.0 points behind its peers.

With Oil and Natural Gas, Oil India and Indian Oil all implicated, this reads as a Oil & Energy-level move rather than a company-specific one, which is the more durable kind of signal.

  • It touches several names at once (ONGC, OIL, IOC), which points to a sector-level rather than company-specific driver.
  • Sector exposure: Oil & Energy.
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