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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Falling Global Crude Oil Prices and The Benficiaries in India

 


India has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the dramatic collapse in crude oil prices, which hit an 11-year low of $36 per barrel this week.

 Global crude prices have crashed nearly 70 % from their peak of $115 per barrel in June 2014


1) India's annual oil import bill has fallen from $108 billion in 2012 to $61 billion in 2015, leading to savings of $47 billion

2)Oil subsidy payments are likely to be just 0.2 per cent of GDP in 2015-16 as compared to 1 per cent in 2012-13, leading to savings of $14 billion for the central government

3)The central government has also been able to generate $14 billion in revenues since November 2014 by hiking excise duty on petrol and diesel

4)The corporate sector, which uses oil as ingredients/raw materials, is estimated to have saved $12 billion from the fall in oil prices

5) Consumers have been least benefitted: Households are estimated to have saved just $8 billion on account of the slump in oil prices

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