(BPCL) is India's second largest oil BPCL is the second largest oil company in India and the first state-owned company in India to have advanced information processing equipment and to be a leader in information technology.

BPCL, formerly known as Standard Petroleum Trust, established in 1860 and nationalized in 1976 as Bharat Petroleum Corporation, was the first state-owned company in India to have advanced information processing equipment and to be at the forefront of information technology.

currently operates a 240,000 bpd refinery in Mumbai and a 150,000 bpd refinery in the southern Indian state of Kerala.

Earlier it merged with Anglo-Dutch Shell and ROTHSCHILDS to form ASIATIC Petroleum India, and later with BURMAH Petroleum to form BURMAH-SHELL Oil Reserves and Distribution India.